Really? If Fox went down along with a couple of other conservative outlets, what would we have left? To have our very own Pravda doesn't require we only have one news outlet, just that all the news outlets take direction from the party.
Just pulled up front page at RCP
The publishers of the Saturday content are: NYT, CNN, USA today, Salon, Federalist, The Guardian, NYT, PJ Media, American Prospect, RCP, NYT, WSJ, American Greatness, Politico, The Hill, New Yorker,
Washington Examiner, New Yorker, NY Post, Slate, American Greatness, The Atlantic, IBD, Al-Monitor, NYT, Rush, CNN, WaPo
About 65%/35% Pull out Fox and its affiliates (as James and Lachlan arguably may wish to do) and how many of what's left have a major media presence. Look through the daily archives at RCP (I think you can go back at least a week) and watch the media move in lockstep with the progressive talking points/anti-Trump theme of the moment. The situation is even worse in broadcast media, and don't even try to convince me that print media can pick up the slack. That would require our bourgeoning little resistance members to actually read something. For them if it isn't on video/social media it didn't happen
We are closer to Pravda than you might wish to think
You didn't address the '10x nuclear arsenal' lie. Is that 'fake news' or not?
And, from: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/broadcast-radio-license-renewal
Wow, read much? For at least the third time in this thread let me say this: the media is not intellectually honest, nor is it impartial. The 10x nuclear lie doesn't need to be addressed. It's a distortion of real news, chosen and reported with bias. That confirms what I have said this whole time. It isn't "fake news" though. You'll have to check the Onion for that.
That is quite a straw man you have there, with FOX dropping out and all.
A profitable multi-billion dollar company closing its doors is not how you'll get government control of media. That will come from somebody acting on what Trump has said, then someone else taking it a step further, and then more restrictions, more censorship, and before long you have government run healthcare, umm, media. Look at their playbook. This is how it is always done, not by talking a billionaire into shooting his cash cow.
And when did I bring up print media? I did refute a claim that by revoking a broadcast stations license for content reasons there was no 1A infringement because that entity still retained the ability to say what the wanted in print. You just added another argument to that refutation. Thank you, although I'm sure that wasn't your intent.
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