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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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Fucking exactly.
It's a goddamn propaganda outlet that ONLY EXISTS to function as a propaganda outlet.
We need to do some serious thinking in this country and really hammer down how to define propaganda and separate it from legitimate press.
It's one thing if you're simply reporting the news, whether it's positive for the right or left, reality is reality, but if your entire existence is "simply" to lie and push a narrative that misinforms the population for political or monetary gain then there needs to be consequences.
We need a free press, but maybe we need to have some definitions as to what constitutes the press and the whole "tiny-ass text that says opinion" isn't cutting it. People like my father have said "Shepard Smith is too opinionated, that's why I like Sean Hannity." When Smith was the literal journalist side of Fox and Hannity is literally an OPINION show...