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Re:The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real by Clubber on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:46PM (#28722077)
So when Fox and MSNBC gets sued for slander, they claim that it isn't news, it's entertainment. If we simply restrict the freedom of the press from any corporation that claims their news department is entertainment and not news (and therefore not press), that might solve some problems.

Of course that won't happen, most of these corporations are just mouth pieces for politicians, and they like to keep them around.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddow...

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

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Re:The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:49PM (#28722097)
Freedom of the press applies to entertainment, too. And "simply restrict the freedom of the press" is a terrible solution to almost everything.
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Re:The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real by Clubber on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:55PM (#28722152)
Yes, it was mostly in jest. I don't think freedom of the press covers entertainment, but freedom of speech certainly does. The only way to combat this stuff is to realize they're just peddlers of fear. Also, they're on cable so they can't be included in the fairness doctrine if we were to ever bring it back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

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