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Eager for more of this conversation about how to hold Fox (and friends) accountable for how they've endangered our democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-news-is-a-hazard-to-our-democracy-its-time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-murdochs-heres-how/2021/01/22/1821f186-5cbe-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html
Along with advertisers pulling out, as @Sulliview suggests, how about:
- Pressure companies to stop advertising on Fox properties outside FNC (hello, NFL)
- Stop forcing all cable subscribers to pay for Fox News (and other channels we don't want. Give viewers the choice!)
- Pressure companies to stop advertising on Fox properties outside FNC (hello, NFL)
- Stop forcing all cable subscribers to pay for Fox News (and other channels we don't want. Give viewers the choice!)
- That goes for OANN and Newsmax, too (and, yes, MSNBC and CNN for those that don't want to pay for those just to get ESPN or Nick or whatever).
- Diversify local media and force Fox, Sinclair, etc. to divest local stations. Why should these companies own hundreds of stations?
- Diversify local media and force Fox, Sinclair, etc. to divest local stations. Why should these companies own hundreds of stations?
- Hold broadcasters accountable for spreading lies and hoaxes about the pandemic and the election. These are the public airwaves and they come with public responsibilities!
- Invest billions more in public media, primarily noncommercial local media.
- Invest billions more in public media, primarily noncommercial local media.
Pass targeted recovery legislation to get and keep more journalists on the beat. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalism-stimulus.php
And a merger moratorium, too! That's for the short term.
And a merger moratorium, too! That's for the short term.
Long term we need to seriously reckon with how we got the media system we have, who has been excluded, how to reconcile and repair. https://mediareparations.org/
Reckoning with the immense damage Rupert Murdoch has done to this country and the entire planet would indeed be a good place to start. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html
