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Let's Just Ban Everydamnthing And Get It Over With

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  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    Can banning be banned?
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    DJ_Enki said:
    Can banning be banned?

  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    BAN ROCKADELIC
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Ban complaining about Banning
  • covecove 1,567 Posts
    the comments to that article are amazingly classic.... thanks.
  • vintageinfantsvintageinfants 4,537 Posts
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    When Rockefeller says "there's a little bug inside him" that wants to get rid of these stations he's not actually saying he wants to do that. He's implicitly acknowledging that it can't and shouldn't be done. That's why he uses the phrase "little bug" instead of just saying "Let's ban these fuckers."

    In the same speech he says this: "When it comes to developing content, our entertainment machine is too often in a race to the bottom. In fact, it is in a race to the bottom. Getting close. Even worse, our news media has all but surrendered to the forces of entertainment. And much of our news media is entertainment as opposed to news. Instead of a watchdog that is a check on the excesses of government and business, we have the endless barking of a 24-hour news cycle. We have journalism that is always ravenous for the next rumor, but insufficiently hungry for the facts that can nourish something called our democracy. As citizens, we are paying one heck of a price in the dumbing down of America. You're probably responsible for that."

    Reducing the speech to headlines saying he "WANTS TO BAN FOX AND MSNBC" - as most news sources seem to be doing - is a very good example of the dumbing down that he's talking about. Rockefeller is not one of my favorites but he's got a point here.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
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