Should TrumpTV be banned?

Our constitution guarantees a free press, this creates an opening for the beginnings of State Run media. More and more FOX news has become little more than a propaganda tool for our President and it is obviously working quite effectively for almost a third of our population, rendering them an almost cult like population.
This seems a dangerous and almost SS tactic that is clearly damaging the solidarity of our citizenry if not making it factional. Do you consider this acceptable in our democratic republic or does it scare you?

 

TDS

 

It scares the crap right outta me but it is protected under the constitution unless direct government control is discovered.

 

First thing fascist do is take control of media and fascist fear fox because it's the only news outlet they don't own.

 

Nope. There has always been a Fox News and an MSNBC in our republic. Matter of fact, there has always been propaganda tools in American media. There have been lots of them. Factionalism has been around since the Whigs and the Democratic party in the 1830's. What you have shown us that 2/3rds of the American people are not buying the propaganda that this particular 'tool' is selling for over a year now. that is a pretty healthy number I can live with.

PS you can interpret the noun 'tool' to apply creatively and liberally as you prefer. Any number of applications are to this author's liking .

 

This is quite an amusing rant. An outlet that does not provide cover for the left wing in lock step is threatened by the freedom of a different viewpoint.

 

As is demonstrated by the dumbing down of the American people, and especially the right wing, Faux News is becoming the tool of the Plutocrat class. I seriously doubt that the US can take too much more of this kind of cowardice as shown by the choices Trump is making, and the right wing is supporting. As an example, for 8 years the Repugnant ones opposed any appointee that Obama put up for judgeship in the country. Now they have gone nuts appointing unqualified parties to different judicial positions, and bragging about how many they have seated.

They are nothing but liars, hypocrites, and unAmerican.

 

Speaking of hate for Americans. The gall they do not believe in what the left believes. No such freedom should exist! Now that would be true progressive progress.

 

Fox is no more a propaganda tool for the current regime than other networks were for the previous regime. You want to ban them all or just the ones you don't agree with?

 

NO! It does not bother me nor do the other six or eight "news" channels that hate Trump.

 

This is demonstrably untrue. In this last week I have watched the Nonstop and unrelenting Fox news coverage attacking the FBI and everyone involved in the Trump investigation followed by congressional action to further diminish FBI credibility. This is likely setting the stage for whatever action Trump will take while Congress is out of town which is likely to result in Constitutional crisis.
All this seems a coordinated effort which designates Fox as an arm of government rather than the check it was meant to be. This was one of the first steps taken by many strongmen before taking control as dictator or something similar. That so many in this country cannot or will not see this is not a good thing and may very well end our little experiment in democracy.

 

You realize that the left owns the rest of the MSM?

Your suggestion would mean an end to most broadcast television, including made for broadcast series, etc..

Aren't you afraid such a Gestapo like suggestion of yours would actually be implemented?

I guess our Founding Fathers were brilliant enough to protect the Nation from people who would call for such ideological censorship.

 

A nifty link for historical perspective http://mentalfloss.com/article/12487/adams-vs-jefferson-birth-negative-campaigning-us

 

Lets us substitute CNN for Fox and the far left for Trump fans and you get closer to truth in a realm in which the absolute truth has been hard to come by for longer than Trump has been alive.

 

Mississippi Mud is right. CNN's criticism of Trump has been unrelenting. CNN was virtually an arm of the Democratic Party during the last election. I don't see you going after them. Why not?

 

It must be protected. Those who manipulate short-sighted ignorant people who are easily manipulated have a right to free speech too.

 

Primarily because most (Not All) of what they produce I can and have verified from other sources as accurate with some bias. The reason I see CNN and others reporting so many negatives on Trump is because he does so many negative things. Fox rarely if ever reports on these negatives and usually creates something to distract or tries to spin a positive. I used to use Fox as one of my sources in order to formulate the truth but cannot do so anymore as it does not provide accurate coverage. I now use Fox as TrumpTV in order to guess what he may be steering toward or is about to do.

 

The media is primarily a lapdog for the left, playing prosecuting attorney for any attack on Republicans, and defense attorney for any attack on Democrats, with the one notable exception being Fox. With that being the undeniable reality, your prescription is to "ban" Fox? LOL....How can you say that with a straight face?

 

Fox is destroying everything the USA stands for and they are doing it with skillfully crafted lies and repetition of those lies. Grave damage is being done that threatens our existence as a "free country" and it must be stopped! The Constitution, itself, is threatened. Yet that Constitution appears to prevent anything being done to stop the destruction of the Constitution! It may be possible, within the Constitution, to pass laws to limit the use and application of the term "news" to only those who produce factual news, and then reinstate the Fairness Doctrine to guarantee balance. Maybe there are other solutions but Fox must be stopped.

 

Call them out on it. If Fox wants to sacrifice its journalistic integrity and go full Fake News, then let it reap its reward for that, which will be disgrace in the end.

 

It is true. Granted with each regime change we swing further to the extreme so in that you have a point. Regretfully these are the conditions we have created in our society.

As you stated we have freedom of the press and speech. What good are those freedoms if they fail to protect that which we find objectionable? Could your fears come to fruition? Yes they could ... if we the people allow it. If your solution is to take away those freedoms then the end game is still that we lost.

 

No news outlet 'scares' me even the left's Obama/dnc owned MSM machine. Free press includes Fox, my suggestion is buy a new remote and change the channel. Do you watch Fox?

 

I hope you understand that you have provided the opposition with an excellent reason to dump the PBS and NPR which are publicly funded propaganda outlets.

 

If barry couldn't do it with the DNC bought and paid for MSM, the President won't be able to either with Fox. Why is ban the go to strategy for the left?