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Literally Lügenpresse. People need to get familiar with Hitler's playbook, cause that's the reality we're experiencing right now.
The same administration that was claiming that Europe is stifling the free speech. What hypocritics
There's a video where the press secretary basically says they will ban everybody that is telling 'lies'. I didn't know that asking questions as the press could now be considered lies but here we are. What a timeline we ended up in.
If you don't propagate their lies, then they'll call you a liar.
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth." - 1984
If the other serious media have integrity, they should also remove themselves from any official event in the name of free speech (and future protection as that could happen to them later).
This is the only way to treat this kind of dangerous behavior.
Hell, they did in the past when FOX News was banned back in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies#Obama_administration_conflict_with_Fox_News
They relatively recent consider themselves not as news, but entertainment
Only relatively.
Sadly, it is not just Fox News that has made the claim that their shows are not news. In the same year, Rachel Maddow's lawyers successfully argued that her program is also not news.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/23/san-diego-judge-dismisses-oans-10-million-defamati/
This is a bit of the classic "both sides being the same" argument. The first article you linked even calls it out.
In the Fox case, Carlson was presenting his own narrative, not even one extrapolating from known facts.
Maddow was like "hey this journalist is working for Putin and writing for OAN. OAN is Russian propaganda." When in reality, the journalist in question wrote for Sputnik News, which is affiliated with the Russian government. Granted it is a bit of a stretch to say all of OAN is Russian propaganda.
Carlson, on the other hand, just completely made up a story about Karen McDougal blackmailing Trump. A completely made up story.
So yeah, I wouldn't go saying both sides are the same here.
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