Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?
HubertManne@piefed.social 5 days ago
I think we need to go back to the regulations in the 70’s where no company could own more than one type for an area. one newspaper, one radio station and one tv station.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
What about the Fairness Doctrine?
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 4 days ago
With media and the public discourse in the state they’re in today, this would surely be impossible to enforce. Every viewpoint can be argued to have infinite counter viewpoints and people treat it like a sport. Maybe the people of 1949 were naive enough to reckon there were two sides to every argument, but implementing this today would be akin to outlawing any kind of controversial statement or discussion in the media. Perhaps the end of politics as we kn…
Ok I’m starting to come around
HubertManne@piefed.social 4 days ago
yeah although its kinda funny because despite that dying under reagan it sounds like they were pushing it with the colbert thing. another for me and not for thee.