▲ 696 ▼ Whopping 91% of Fox News Viewers Believe Trump Has Not Committed Federal Crimes, But Only 42% Support Him In The Primary (www.mediaite.com) submitted 3 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 63 points 3 years ago (2 children) Read up on roger Ailes and Reagan destroying 'The Fairness Doctrine.' Back in the day, you could only own two radio stations in one town [AM and FM] and any editorial had to provide time for rebuttal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 51 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yup. You can take nearly a modern “bad thing” and trace it back to Reagan policy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Nixon too. Particularly around the state of insurance in the US. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago And cancelling Apollo. The Saturn V was the greatest engineering achievement of the human race. If the Wright brothers had done their first flight and 8 years later some group flew a 747 across the Pacific ocean it would have been by multiple measures a less impressive achievement. He cancelled the remaining missions and shelved the rocket. Within 2 years it could no longer be built and the country that went to the moon could not put a human into space. In the 50 years since then no rocket has come close to what it could do. And he did it all for tax cuts. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CynicRaven@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago I think even that stuff could be said to be results of stuff like Aisles working with Nixon, and Justice Lewis Powell's memoranda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.?wprov=sfla1 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 51 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yup. You can take nearly a modern “bad thing” and trace it back to Reagan policy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Nixon too. Particularly around the state of insurance in the US. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago And cancelling Apollo. The Saturn V was the greatest engineering achievement of the human race. If the Wright brothers had done their first flight and 8 years later some group flew a 747 across the Pacific ocean it would have been by multiple measures a less impressive achievement. He cancelled the remaining missions and shelved the rocket. Within 2 years it could no longer be built and the country that went to the moon could not put a human into space. In the 50 years since then no rocket has come close to what it could do. And he did it all for tax cuts. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Nixon too. Particularly around the state of insurance in the US. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago And cancelling Apollo. The Saturn V was the greatest engineering achievement of the human race. If the Wright brothers had done their first flight and 8 years later some group flew a 747 across the Pacific ocean it would have been by multiple measures a less impressive achievement. He cancelled the remaining missions and shelved the rocket. Within 2 years it could no longer be built and the country that went to the moon could not put a human into space. In the 50 years since then no rocket has come close to what it could do. And he did it all for tax cuts. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago And cancelling Apollo. The Saturn V was the greatest engineering achievement of the human race. If the Wright brothers had done their first flight and 8 years later some group flew a 747 across the Pacific ocean it would have been by multiple measures a less impressive achievement. He cancelled the remaining missions and shelved the rocket. Within 2 years it could no longer be built and the country that went to the moon could not put a human into space. In the 50 years since then no rocket has come close to what it could do. And he did it all for tax cuts. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CynicRaven@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago I think even that stuff could be said to be results of stuff like Aisles working with Nixon, and Justice Lewis Powell's memoranda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.?wprov=sfla1 permalink fedilink source parent