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

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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.
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submitted 3 weeks ago by bushbushbush3@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A huge difference between the coverage of Vietnam versus the first and second gulf wars was the change in media broadcasting regulations.

While you would think a nationalized service like broadcast airwave licenses would lead to a state-controlled media, in the US it led to the opposite effect because of the Fairness Doctrine and the general cultural expectation that news media would be impartial and dedicated to truth.

When privately distributed cable news rose in the early 90's starting with Ted Turner starting CNN and 24-hour news cycles, it led to news becoming a unmoderated, uncontrolled, unlicensed commercial entity that could do or say whatever it wanted without oversight, and could get funding from any source.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

Ronald Reagan was deregulating the media from Inauguration Day 1981.

There used to be a thing called 'The Fairness Doctrine' that required stations to give time to opposing viewpoints if they ran an editorial. There were restrictions on how many TV/radio stations one entity could own.

Just look at children's TV. Once Reagan came in you started seeing half hour long commercials for GI Joe and The Transformers.