Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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So that feeling of there being no big difference, no legal difference between what she was doing and what I was doing, that's sort of how I'm thinking about this WhiteHouse.gov site.
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Because
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In theory, all of these outlets, Daily Wire, Fox News, the rest of them, are First Amendment protected journalism outlets.
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But they are, of course, as you well know, not unbiased news sources.
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They are specifically a product of the 1980s when...
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We cease to have the legal requirement that we offer both sides of a political perspective when we broadcast ourselves.
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Up until the 1980s, if you were CBS, ABC, NBC, any of those guys, you had to broadcast.
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legally show both sides.
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Then under the Reagan administration, that rule went away.
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That's how we got Rush Limbaugh.
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He was a creation of that.
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And that is how we arrived at the moment we're at today, where it is the same legally, whether you dress up and deliver objective news or dress up
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and deliver biased news.
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It doesn't matter.
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The same protections are extended.
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And so that's a funny moment to be in considering that now the White House is dressing up WhiteHouse.gov as this.
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It looks like the Drudge Report.
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Remember the Drudge Report back in the day, you know, the Craigslist era.
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It looks like that kind of news outlet, but it just links out to essentially propaganda.
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And this, of course, corresponds to another big news story about the news, which is President Trump signing an executive order that would defund PBS and NPR, which, of course, they are the American equivalent of the British Broadcasting Corporation or any of a number of state-sponsored media around the world, which are supposed to be the gold standard when it comes to a certain kind of unbiased coverage.
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