Court filings rife with internal communications exposed Fox News’ post-election misinformation push. Newsmax could be next

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    Masquerading as “news” while blatantly spewing out whatever toxic and dangerous, insurrectionary bullshit you make up day by day to a community - knowing full well it is bullshit - should and MUST have serious, or at the very least expensive, consequences.

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        To think where we could be if Reagan hadn’t of torn down The Fairness Doctrine.

        @Ganondorf the fairness doctrine was only for broadcast media, the FCC was able to regulate it because it used public bandwidth. It wouldn’t have applied here. We’d need different regulation.

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          That’s a good point. I haven’t ever watched NewsMax so I’m unclear how it’s broadcast, but now that you’ve brought it up I assume it’s streamable and therefore immune from the TFD.

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    Newsmax staffers are understandably nervous that their texts, emails, and other correspondence may, too, become part of the public record.

    I can’t help but think they might have more than one reason to be nervous.

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    I don’t think either NewsMax nor OANN will survive these lawsuits, they don’t have FOX money.

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    I wish there were consequences for intentionally lying to the public in the guise of a news show, regardless of whether it damages corporate profits. I wonder if we’re going to get to read Newsmax’s internal communications and directly learn what morally bankrupt liars they are, or if they learned their lesson from Fox News.

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      How much do you want to bet that, unlike Fox, these idiots actually believe the things they say?