I heard the closest thing to a sign on human intelligence from the mouth of Sandy Cortez at the end of last week. She put up a video saying, "What we need to do is figure out how to reign in the media... View MoreI heard the closest thing to a sign on human intelligence from the mouth of Sandy Cortez at the end of last week. She put up a video saying, "What we need to do is figure out how to reign in the media from spewing misinformation and disinformation." She is dead on the money with that statement, although it will basically shut HER up based on the dis/mis-information constantly spewed by her own preferred media channels.
But I've though about how we might actually address this. It has to be done aggressively and with lots of teeth in the implementation. I at first thought, what about a 1 month forced media blackout for each such violation, until I realized that would essentially put CNN, NBC and their brethren off the air so long as to be functionally permanent. So instead of a month, would a week or even just a complete blackout of 1 day be more appropriate? Or perhaps a fine of $10MM (or some other amount) instead, or in combination?
But if Sandy wonders just how badly this will affect her "friendly" media, consider this. At the end of last week, Jacob Blake or whatever the name of the Kenosha criminal wounded by the cops is went on GMA and did an interview with Michael Strahan. In that interview, he flat out confessed that he was armed, in direct contradiction of literally thousands (if not more) of media reports using the phrase "unarmed black man." In other words, every time some network reported the incident as such with those words, it was an incident of dis/mis-information spewing. I really think for CNN alone this might mean commission of 1000s of infractions, but 100s at the bare minimum. How long should CNN have to be off the air, how big a fine should they have to pay, FOR JUST THIS ONE INFRACTION REPEATED OVER AND OVER AND OVER? Think about THAT, AOC!!!
They should be taken off indefinitely as crooked as they are. Until they start seeing both sides l'm done with news. Except for newsmax and my local news.
And, of course, add another day/week/month off air and/or $millions fine for every time one of their folks touted the phrase "Trump-Russia collusion" or similar assertion, and then more of the same for each time any of their spokespeople said "Russian disinformation" regarding the Hunter Biden lapto... View MoreAnd, of course, add another day/week/month off air and/or $millions fine for every time one of their folks touted the phrase "Trump-Russia collusion" or similar assertion, and then more of the same for each time any of their spokespeople said "Russian disinformation" regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story, since FBI's own docs now prove the first of these to be a known Hillary authored hoax and the latter a proven true story they were already investigating. Already probably enough to keep CNN, NBC and the rest off the air and broke for my remaining lifetime. An absolutely GREAT idea, AOC!