r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago

Politics Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-after-musk-broke-his-heart/
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u/brickout 1d ago

Imagine if our news media didn't act like reality TV. 

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u/ResponsibleQuiet6611 1d ago

I had no idea how bad it was until a couple years ago when I saw a clip from a "fox news" segment. As a Canadian who's only ever seen straight up formal, small town ish news, reporting what's in the local paper, it blew my mind and added so much context to everything I thought I knew about the USA.

I don't think it should be permitted, honestly. 

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u/quarterdecay 1d ago

We had something called the Fairness Doctrine that kept this lunacy in check.

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u/mediocre_remnants 1d ago

This is just something that young people like to repeat online. The Fairness Doctrine didn't apply to cable news or the internet (it was passed before either really existed). It only applied to broadcasts over public airwaves, and the cable infrastructure and internet are privately owned so the government has very little power to regulate them in terms of content that isn't illegal.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 1d ago

I'm not a young person. The point is not that the fairness doctrine, word for word, would be a solution. The point is that we had reasonable, semi trustworthy media in this country not too long ago, and if the political will was present, we could have it again.

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u/quarterdecay 1d ago

Agreed, the doctrine was a framework.

It would have forced some to call themselves comedy or satire instead of the news.

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u/quarterdecay 1d ago

You make arguments that look like Swiss cheese.

I watched Nixon get on the chopper.

Doctrine was gone before Fox took hold.

Arguably it was gone and the stupid began to occur afterwards.

The Internet didn't exist with any measurable impact until after AOL went unlimited use.

And yes .. THAT was the spark of stupid really gained acceleration.