Comments by "" (@zachrodan7543) on "Follow Tucker Carlson, Go to Jail?" video.

@j0hnn13K unless things have changed, isn't it illegal to intentionally air false information in a way that could be construed as a newscast? weren't laws like that passed after the war of the worlds debacle? consider: it is not uncommon for businesses to have a tv playing. it is also not uncommon for someone to be flipping through channels and stumble upon a broadcast already in progress. it is also not unreasonable to assume that someone might have stumbled upon tucker carlson without knowing that it was meant as satire (assuming it even was). the reason the war of the worlds broadcast was a problem wasn't because it didn't make clear at any point that it was a work of fiction: it was stated clearly that it was an adaptation of a work of fiction at least once before things got crazy, and at least once after things were already crazy. the issue is that people who tuned in after the warning that it was a work of fiction had no way of knowing that it wasn't an actual newscast, and thought that it was actually the end of the world. Assuming the laws that were passed after that are still in place, anything that could be interpreted as "news" by someone under any reasonable circumstance, such as having just tuned in, should be subject to the laws against hoax broadcasts. This is actually why anytime you see a news broadcast on a tv show, the full tv screen and some people are in the shot: it makes it very clear that the "newscast" you are seeing is part of a work of fiction
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arguably, anything that is displayed on a television broadcast which could be reasonably construed as a newscast should be treated as such for the purpose of legal interpretation. in the clip you presented of carlson's rant, the fox NEWS logo was clearly emphasised, along with the same sort of summary-providing banner paraphrasing the key points carlson was saying. exactly the way you see in a newscast. if this was meant as satire, don't they risk running into the "hoax newscast" laws that were passed after things like the war of the worlds fiasco?
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