I don't want a "liberal" media. I want a media which reports the news, and gives unbiased analysis without the "both sides" bullshit. It's really one of the things we need to survive as a democracy.
@LiberalLibrarian @Tarnagh @ACG2
I grew up watching ABC News World Report with Peter Jennings, every night. And then later my dad and I would watch Nightline with Ted Koppel.
I read Walter Cronkite's autobiography several years ago and darn near cried throughout the whole thing just thinking about how low journalism has fallen.
@see_the_sus I mean, really. Is our cable media any different than the Russian media we laugh at? @Tarnagh @ACG2
@LiberalLibrarian @Tarnagh @ACG2
hmmm...well I don't watch Russian media so I can't really compare. Nor do I watch cable news only cause I don't have those channels. I do read CNN articles, which have greatly gone down the tubes since whatshisname became CEO or was it president last year.
@LiberalLibrarian We need the fairness doctrine back.
@sentientdessert The problem is that wouldn't apply to cable. How we square that circle is the problem.
@sentientdessert And, of course, I'm also referring to print media. Which has the same problems.
@LiberalLibrarian It wouldn't do in print, no... but even cable companies need a broadcast license to run their channels...
Honestly, the only station that seems to give things as they are, C-Span... because it's just... what's actually happening...
@LiberalLibrarian We had that. Ronald Reagan (aka, the senile easily manipulated greedy old fool), the Republican Party, and the oligarchy destroyed it in pursuit of minority rule.
@TwiHusband I do think we have a rosy lens on the media past. But certainly after WW2, there was a golden age. Factual reporting, unbiased analysis, no sensationalism. Once cable news came along—which was not bound by the FCC—the writing was on the wall.
@LiberalLibrarian: That doesn't make the money like the editorialized news does. Cronkite, Rather, Safer, Jennings, and others said it in the '90s when the network news agencies were forced by the news execs and owners to make money for the networks like the entertainment programming.
@thedisasterautist Mmhmm. Once the wall between editorial and commercial came down, it was game over.
@LiberalLibrarian: Affirmative. It was after the frenzy of mergers and acquisitions that started in the 1980s and megacorps going all out to diversify, which really was a way for them to leverage perceived value to get loans to buy other corporations in order to spread the colossal debts and debt servicing the parent company was sucking up and in the process artificially inflate stock prices.
@LiberalLibrarian I watch no news- because it’s not. All there is now is editorialized bullshit.
@LiberalLibrarian Give me Walter Cronkite again. That’s the way it is.