>>On 9-III-1991 we had a run of people on TV Bastille and state government building, for all the lies and propaganda it was spewing for months. And that was before any of the ex-Yu wars started.
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>>Now imagine such a gathering in front of ... what exactly? Murdoch's HQ? Oh, he's not a government, so that's OK.
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>Perhaps In front of parliaments?
>Demanding laws where lies by media (after being positively exposed ) should be penalized by loss of licence + financially.
>Was it FoxNews that got acquitted for telling lie (because there is no law against it) ? If there was one (strict law against false news)
>very likely 90% of main-scream news outlets would have been probably closed by now.
You mean
the Akre case? A landmark decision, lie is covered by freedom of speech (not so much of reporters' speech, they wrote the report but don't own it, work for hire etc - it's about Fox's freedom). And so are their collective asses.
>But then again... For anything like this to happen, you need at first people who care about it enough and have some spine left to revolt.
>Serbs revolted 20 years back on various issues. And the result is... We became just like about everybody else nowadays.
My avatar, on a couple of forums, is the serbian crest with
four firesteels (would you believe english has no word for ocilo?) replaced with four bananas, daughter's artwork. I'm learning several dialects of
engrbian, just to be able to buy things.
>No Spine - No Problem.
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>Is this is what they call 'civilized' ? {g}
Note the passive form.