Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

[Screwball]

36 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don't know that Trump wants the Post to shut down, necessarily. I think he just wants to make sure that the local paper is on board with him. He can't have a major journalistic institution taking potshots at him from his own backyard.

As for serious reform of media ownership, the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine was the "Big Bang" of media deregulation ("television is just another appliance—it’s a toaster with pictures"), which led to The Telecommunications Act of 1996, the most significant ownership loosening in history. We had those rules for a reason. Now we can clearly see what those reasons were.

Strange, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into law on this very date in 1996. Exactly 30 years ago by pedo Slick Willy Clinton.

[romad1]

38 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Strange, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into law on this very date in 1996. Exactly 30 years ago by pedo Slick Willy Clinton.

Vince Foster would be alive today if he had owned a gun...etc. 

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

AWS and Blue Origins contracts with the federal government were the most important things that needed to survive the Trump presidency.  If destroying the WaPo is the cost of that, well Bezos did what he needed to do.  

We need a new media and we need serious reform of media ownership.  

It's more than that though. If Bezos just wanted to be free of the liability that WaPo might have been to his government contracting, he could have just sold it. There was no need to disembowel it.