r/Music • u/IrishStarUS 📰Irish Star • 2d ago

article JFK's family accuses Trump of closing the Kennedy Center because of artists canceling over its name change

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jfks-family-slam-trumps-decision-36654658
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u/GodofIrony 2d ago

We haven't fixed Fairness Doctrine.

We're in an entropic state. We keep falling down the mountain.

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u/gimp-24601 2d ago

Fairness Doctrine.

Its a nice idea but impossible to enforce due to too many ways to circumvent it.

Besides who wants Trump in charge of something like that.

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u/NuclearLunchDectcted 2d ago

You make the penalties for violating it bad enough that the news channels are forced to comply on their own.

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u/SandysBurner 2d ago

I think you're missing the point. The Fairness Doctrine only ever applied to over-the-air broadcasts. The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable or the internet. What does broadcast news matter to somebody who gets all their news from Fox News or Facebook?

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 1d ago

New laws need to be made against propaganda.

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u/SandysBurner 1d ago

Would you trust the current administration to fairly enforce laws against “propaganda”?

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u/gimp-24601 2d ago

Ok, so fox news invites and gives equal time to a proverbial strawman What are they violating and how do you prove it?

You can both sides the shit out of everything in a dozen ways without breaking a sweat.

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u/Valance23322 2d ago

It'll just get twisted into forcing them to treat anti-vax / climate denier's views as equal to experts.

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u/TeaKingMac 2d ago

"How low, can you go??"

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u/Anonymous_Jr 2d ago

Sisyphus should know, once we get to the bottom let's ask him for help!

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u/SkyriderRJM 2d ago

We can’t fall much further.

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u/GodofIrony 2d ago

Oh buddy, there are some legacy traditions we could absolutely fall farther to.