• militaryintelligence@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    News doesn’t consider itself news anymore, it considers itself entertainment. Bring back the regulations that Reagan got rid of in the 80s.

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      4 months ago

      And the Telecommunications Act that Clinton signed in 96 let corporate media consolidate all of the news organizations under a small group of umbrellas, making it easier to use news reporting to push political agendas.

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        4 months ago

        That act also ruined municipal internet for decades and is why we have such shitty rural internet in most of America