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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Also, in America at least, we still had the fairness doctrine. When it was repealed during the Reagan administration, we got "news personalities" like Rush Limbaugh and low-quality infotainment like the view and fox news.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.

Oh yes, the stations that run assholes like Limbaugh, Jones, Carlson are certainly the absolute opposite of that.

Something similar is still in place in EU countries. It has a big downside: every now and then you'd need to invite loud crackpots representing <1% of whatever area they're loudly crackpotting in, as a "differing viewpoint" to the >99% consensus.

I would conclude that it hasn't completely prevented the rise of populism but certainly made it harder for fear- and hatemongers to simply buy the game.