So How Do We Get Cable TV NEWS REGULATED...

[rsmith6621]

....So the ILK CALLED FOXNEWS cannot raise money for political candidates with out first changing their description of their content from NEWS to POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE....... And I think the rest of cable news should be held tothe same standard...


Got to Stop this CRAP...

[Swede]

1. Apply the fairness doctrine?

I am not sure.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. The fairness doctrine...

...was justified on the grounds that the RF spectrum was a publicly-held commons, and its use could be regulated in the public good the same way the water of the Colorado River can, or the fish off the coast of New England.

Cable isn't like that. It's not 'the public airwaves'. There are no 'public airwaves' on cable. All those transmissions dance around in the 1/4 of an inch between the center conductor and the shield of a piece of RG-59 coax (mostly). Which cable someone paid for, paid to lay, pays the pole fees for, pays the towns' franchise fees, etc.

Me, I'm a socialist -- I'd have the hardware publicly owned, as a utility. But I wouldn't regulate the content. Because "Congress shall make no law...."

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. How do you reconcile...

...fighting for net neutrality and for regulation of cable news based on content?

I'm guessing you don't bother -- it's just more of HULK SMASH! progressivism.

[John Kerry VonErich]

3. Ya can't unfortunately

Cable channels are considered private business sice it is a basic subscription package. And don't bother going after the providers, market is too big to be sadly honest.

[treestar]

5. With the First Amendment, likely impossible

The only way to attack it is to convince as many as possible of the public in general that they don't buy into it.

[elocs]

6. Yeah, that pesky First Amendment raises its ugly head again. n/t

[SoCalNative]

7. First you would have to get Cable TV regulated

which it isn't.

[Pyrzqxgl]

8. There's something in the Constitution about Free Speech that would get in the way of that.

For that matter I think their might be a Free Speech issue involved with Keith's suspension.

[Initech]

9. Fox isn't a news organization, it's the propaganda wing of the GOP.

[SoCalDem]

10. News USED to be under a different set of rules and was a "public service"

It was considered to be a main reason why the airwaves were "free".

A while back the "news divisions" were lumped in with the "entertainment" divisions...They were expected to "pay for themselves" & that's when they also shrank & became loaded up with commercials & "faux" news to appeal to a broader audience.