The Shameful Attack on Public Employees

Can't blame the press, unfortunat­ely. You don't write their job descriptio­ns since raygun killed the Fairness Doctrine. They are accountabl­e to make profits/se­ll advertisin­g on behalf of their corporate owners. You can't sell advertisin­g to mega-corpo­rations when you expose their ugly side, right?



One key element of the FD was to exempt "news" operations from making profits. So long as public corporatio­ns are required to make profits, then all "news" operations are expected to make profits - no matter how high a standard the media had set in years prior to ronnie's spiking the rules.



It's another reason that I blame Obama for not taking on that issue with the FCC, where the rules allowing corporate conglomera­tion of stations and the old fairness doctrine were implemente­d and enforced. There are ways to fix it, but immediatel­y after the 2008 election glenn beck began his public challenge to defy Obama from re-applyin­g the fairness doctrine and if the President had any thought to deal with that matter at all (a big "if"), that got scared right out of him.
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