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03-21-2015, 02:33 PM
Trillion Dollar Fraudsters: (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/opinion/paul-krugman-trillion-dollar-fraudsters.html?_r=0) the current Republican Congress
This is the reality, what a tragedy that more articles and educated opinions like this are not published or broadcast on mass media as they should be.
I remember when a for profit commercial broadcasting station, radio or television in order to keep their FCC lenience to be allowed to continue to have the Privilege to use the airwaves, they were Required to give equal time to opposing viewpoints on their news and election coverage of political persons and issues, it was a strict rule that was actually enforced and politics weren’t as able to conger up so many lies without being called-out for them.
Even without the internet the public at large was more informed about what the differences actually were in the 1960's and 1970's than now.
If the for profit broadcasting entities (I dare say in some instances the internet now too) had the same equal time standards (Fairness Doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine)) and if it were actually enforced like it was for the most part in the 60's and 70's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._FCC) we would not be in such a compromised place as we are now socially and economically.
Notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#Formal_revocation):
In June 2011, the Chairman and a subcommittee chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Energy_and_Commerce_Committee), both Republicans, said that the FCC, in response to their requests, had set a target date of August 2011 for removing the Fairness Doctrine and other "outdated" regulations from the FCC's rulebook.[49] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#cite_note-49)
On August 22, 2011, the FCC formally voted to repeal the language that implemented the Fairness Doctrine, along with removal of more than eighty other rules and regulations, from the Federal Register (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register) following a White House executive order directing a "government-wide review of regulations already on the books", to eliminate unnecessary regulations.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#cite_note-Finally-1)
Gee, Thanks Obama... ...NOT!
You know the drill:
“Outdated” like the recent ruling from the SCOTUS (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/voting-rights-act-states_n_3502062.html).
What a 'perfect':shitstorm::shitstorm:(S#&*-Storm)
Here are a couple of snippets from the New York Times Opinion Pages that gives an example of what kind of opinions that are strategically scuttled into the background noise instead of being front and center along with the biased viewpoints.
The article is dated March 20, 2015; written by Paul Krugman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman)
...By now it’s a Republican Party tradition: Every year the party produces a budget that allegedly slashes deficits, but which turns out to contain a trillion-dollar “magic asterisk” — a line that promises huge spending cuts and/or revenue increases, but without explaining where the money is supposed to come from...
And:
...But I’m partial to a more cynical explanation. Think about what these budgets would do if you ignore the mysterious trillions in unspecified spending cuts and revenue enhancements. What you’re left with is huge transfers of income (https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/whats-in-the-ryan-plan/) from the poor and the working class, who would see severe benefit cuts, to the rich, who would see big tax cuts. And the simplest way to understand these budgets is surely to suppose that they are intended to do what they would, in fact, actually do: make the rich richer and ordinary families poorer....
The whole NYT internet article is @: Trillion Dollar Fraudsters
(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/opinion/paul-krugman-trillion-dollar-fraudsters.html?_r=0)
(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/opinion/paul-krugman-trillion-dollar-fraudsters.html?_r=0)
This is the reality, what a tragedy that more articles and educated opinions like this are not published or broadcast on mass media as they should be.
I remember when a for profit commercial broadcasting station, radio or television in order to keep their FCC lenience to be allowed to continue to have the Privilege to use the airwaves, they were Required to give equal time to opposing viewpoints on their news and election coverage of political persons and issues, it was a strict rule that was actually enforced and politics weren’t as able to conger up so many lies without being called-out for them.
Even without the internet the public at large was more informed about what the differences actually were in the 1960's and 1970's than now.
If the for profit broadcasting entities (I dare say in some instances the internet now too) had the same equal time standards (Fairness Doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine)) and if it were actually enforced like it was for the most part in the 60's and 70's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._FCC) we would not be in such a compromised place as we are now socially and economically.
Notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#Formal_revocation):
In June 2011, the Chairman and a subcommittee chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Energy_and_Commerce_Committee), both Republicans, said that the FCC, in response to their requests, had set a target date of August 2011 for removing the Fairness Doctrine and other "outdated" regulations from the FCC's rulebook.[49] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#cite_note-49)
On August 22, 2011, the FCC formally voted to repeal the language that implemented the Fairness Doctrine, along with removal of more than eighty other rules and regulations, from the Federal Register (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register) following a White House executive order directing a "government-wide review of regulations already on the books", to eliminate unnecessary regulations.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#cite_note-Finally-1)
Gee, Thanks Obama... ...NOT!
You know the drill:
“Outdated” like the recent ruling from the SCOTUS (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/voting-rights-act-states_n_3502062.html).
What a 'perfect':shitstorm::shitstorm:(S#&*-Storm)
Here are a couple of snippets from the New York Times Opinion Pages that gives an example of what kind of opinions that are strategically scuttled into the background noise instead of being front and center along with the biased viewpoints.
The article is dated March 20, 2015; written by Paul Krugman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman)
...By now it’s a Republican Party tradition: Every year the party produces a budget that allegedly slashes deficits, but which turns out to contain a trillion-dollar “magic asterisk” — a line that promises huge spending cuts and/or revenue increases, but without explaining where the money is supposed to come from...
And:
...But I’m partial to a more cynical explanation. Think about what these budgets would do if you ignore the mysterious trillions in unspecified spending cuts and revenue enhancements. What you’re left with is huge transfers of income (https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/whats-in-the-ryan-plan/) from the poor and the working class, who would see severe benefit cuts, to the rich, who would see big tax cuts. And the simplest way to understand these budgets is surely to suppose that they are intended to do what they would, in fact, actually do: make the rich richer and ordinary families poorer....
The whole NYT internet article is @: Trillion Dollar Fraudsters
(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/opinion/paul-krugman-trillion-dollar-fraudsters.html?_r=0)
(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/opinion/paul-krugman-trillion-dollar-fraudsters.html?_r=0)