Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Trish Regan: This is how far journalism has fallen" video.

  1. The press has always been muckrakers and liars. We used to understand that until the 20th Century, when suddenly this cult of objectivity arose and the "Fairness Doctrine" was adopted by our government back in the 1930s, when other fascist nonsense was sweeping the planet. WE were SURE we were better than the fascists and Nazis, but we did darn near the same kinds of things, with functionally centralized control of dominant media (radio, print, and later, t.v.). The nation's founders KNEW everybody had an axe to grind and THEIR solution was to ensure that the government would not have the power to monopolize the propaganda. Well, since Roosevelt, the government pretty much HAS. People calling the government out for its corruption were kept on the margins quite easily by the 3 main radio/tv networks and big papers. One call from local, state or federal official and stories just disappeared. This monopoly's a lot harder to maintain with the Internet. Big Tech is the centralized solution for that, and we KNOW it censors at the behest of the establishment, non-stop. FOX, with Pfizer paying for half its commercials, is no different from the rest. It just seems like it is.
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  2. Obama did away with Fairness Doctrine, thinking that blurring opinion and news would only play to his advantage, given Democrat dominance of news media. I think the Trump administration was in that new landscape that Obama left behind. Personally, I think Obama did the right thing for the wrong reasons. I think 10s of millions, maybe 100s of millions, have been either red-pilled or black-pilled. After COVID, I think credibility of legacy media that've dominated for almost a century has taken a huge hit, AND IT'S WAY OVERDUE.
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