An emotional Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night stage on Tuesday and spoke out for the first time about his six-day suspension from ABC.
An emotional Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night stage on Tuesday and spoke out for the first time about his six-day suspension from ABC.
I don’t think this is the complete solution, because of the consolidation of power in the hands of the wealthy. You could have the best arguments in the world, but if YouTube promotes your opponent instead of you, that’s an uphill battle. If they get millions in funding for advertising, staff, and research, and you don’t, that’s not a fight won merely by sharpness of wit.
People talk about the marketplace of ideas as if solely the better idea will win. Stuff wins in marketplaces for dubious reasons like funding and familiarity rather than merit all the time.
That’s not to say we should just shoot all the republicans. Rather, this is a conflict on many fronts, and “they have almost all the money and thus control” is a big tactical concern. I don’t know how to fix that.
I feel you are absolutely right. I also feel that we need to be able to look in the mirror and honestly know we are better than the beliefs we disavow.
Hypocracy is not a good look. We all know the “right” regularly celebrates the harm to “libtards”.
Our values say that is wrong. If we turn around and do the exact same thing to them, we betray those values and show we’re no better than them.
yeah I mean look at the Clinton Impeachment, the Drudge Report, that guy who shot a BLM protestor… conservative pockets are deep.
The solution is to regulate all news outfits to enforced neutrality and a clear separate of fact and opinion which can’t be reported adjacently.
We already had that: the Fairness Doctrine. Guess who repealed it?
That’s right, it was Reagan!
Shitty actors playing president have done arguably more damage to the country than all the rest of them combined, and there have only been two of them.