Im becoming unsettled. Maybe a few memes total on first two pages. How could things go so bad? Where are the yester beans gone?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Read up on the Cronkite Era and the Fairness Doctrine.

    Companies could only own one TV/radio [AM and FM] station in each town, plus you had a couple of newspapers in even small places. When Reagan came in he started the trend to ‘deregulate’ the media.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        4·
        24 hours ago

        Along with his many other great accomplishments, he created homelessness in America.

        Before he became California Governor, the state had a great mental health system. Plenty of beds for those who were unable to self care. Ronnie cut those beds and suddenly there were undomiciled folks wandering the streets. That meant the cops and prisons had to get more money to deal with the problem.

        It worked so well that as soon as he was President he did it again.