MSNBC analyst and editor of Ink, Anand Giridharadas said in a series of tweets on Friday that he thinks Fox News shouldn’t be allowed to exist legally.
“It’s time for this question to be front and center: Should Fox News be allowed to exist?” he asked, in a smash hit tweet. “Brain-mashing as a business model shouldn’t be legal.”
He defines brain-mashing as “unapproved ideas stated aloud.”
That’s not Orwellian at all.
“I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t understand why you’re not allowed to manufacture bucatini that doesn’t have a certain threshold of iron in it but you can broadcast brain-mashing falsehoods and goad people toward terrorism.”
He wants the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ back which kept conservative thought off the air.
If you go through his Twitter page, and you’re normal, you might be alarmed at the insanity his followers like and agree with.
Expect to hear more of this. CNN is trying to convince providers to not carry Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax.
It could happen. Democrats could get a ‘fairness’ law right through the one-party Congress, and puppet Biden would sign anything.
It’s time for this question to be front and center: Should Fox News be allowed to exist? Brain-mashing as a business model shouldn’t be legal.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 22, 2021
Important reminder. America isn’t the only country in the world. Let’s at least learn from others that have struck a different balance between protecting speech and protecting democracy itself. https://t.co/I6ZmrWj6FT
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 22, 2021
If the Fairness Doctrine, applying to broadcast, was constitutional, why would a new Fairness Doctrine, applying more broadly, be a violation of that same Constitution?
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 22, 2021
And in the interim, I’d love to hear more of the bottom-up ways people suggest.
The advertiser pressure has worked. I’ve heard talk of cable subscribers demanding incitement-free packages.
What are the other mechanisms you see?
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 22, 2021
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