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Newsmax Staffers Hit With Subpoenas in 2020 Election Defamation Suit (www.rollingstone.com)
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Court filings rife with internal communications exposed Fox News’ post-election misinformation push. Newsmax could be next

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To think where we could be if Reagan hadn't of torn down The Fairness Doctrine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To think where we could be if Reagan hadn't of torn down The Fairness Doctrine.

@Ganondorf the fairness doctrine was only for broadcast media, the FCC was able to regulate it because it used public bandwidth. It wouldn't have applied here. We'd need different regulation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a good point. I haven't ever watched NewsMax so I'm unclear how it's broadcast, but now that you've brought it up I assume it's streamable and therefore immune from the TFD.