Liberal Forum

Huey » 22 Jan 2017 1:19 pm » wrote: No, you haven't. If you are so sure you did please post the post number and I will read it again if I missed amongst you irrelevant dribble.

Cannonpointer » 20 Jan 2017 11:58 am » wrote:Under the rules of FDR[edit, for huey, who likes to raise false issues: this ALSO refers to rules passed under ike, fdr, lbj, nixon and carter], corporations were required to operate in the public good, and THEN to the benefit of share holders.

Cannonpointer » 20 Jan 2017 12:37 pm » wrote: It was not long ago that salacious, yellow journalism was legally punishable. Was that a bad time in American history - should we be ashamed of the enforced journalistic standards of the 50s and 60s and 70s, before reagan and his successors pulled the FCC'S teeth?

Cannonpointer » 20 Jan 2017 12:57 pm » wrote:That is precisely the problem, in my view. I prefer the standards of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

Cannonpointer » 20 Jan 2017 1:18 pm » wrote: Who can google fastest is not nearly as important to me as the underlying issue of whether news stations should be hald accountable - as they were - or left untouchable - as they are.

Cannonpointer » 20 Jan 2017 1:29 pm » wrote:I'd like to go back to the same rules we had before the madness, **** - back when phil donahue was "out ther on the edge."

A bonus would be for you to stop effeminately pretending that cable news doesn't use public resources. Cable companies are regulated monopolies.

Are we to take it that you defend that status quo, then? I keep putting that question, then answering yours, then putting it again.

You sure shy away from direct questions, mister wiggly piggly.