David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸
2 min readOct 25, 2024

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Roxanne: Thanks very much for your valuable feedback. First, The Fairness Doctrine is antiquated and unnecessary in today's diverse media environment in which all viewpoints are expressed if you look for it. Moreover, studies from Pew Research show that most people get their news from social media and non-traditional sources.

Second, when your house is on fire the first thing you do is put out the fire (that's the immediate solution). Voting for Kamala Harris will prevent the house of journalism from going up in flames and degrading into a one-party propaganda machine like an Orwellian "Big Brother" from the book "1984".

Third, today's 24/7 media landscape has expanded exponentially. That means people can get their news from a diverse range of sources and then make up their own minds about what's fair and balanced. Conservative news outlets are prevalent and readily available, from Fox News and NewsMax, and from Breitbart News to The Daily Caller, to name just a few right-wing media outlets.

Yes, the news media are imperfect and obviously reflect left-leaning or right-leaning biases, but at least there's a diversity of perspectives with no shortage of options for news consumers to get information and draw their own conclusions (which might include fact checking online, as needed).

I hope this response addresses your points. Again, your valuable feedback is appreciated.

PS/FYI -- I have a degree in journalism from a top-rated J-school and worked as a reporter early in my career for what is now Bloomberg BNA. Moreover, I've worked in media relations for decades, so I would hope that gives me some authority and expertise.

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David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸
David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸

Written by David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸

Lifelong writer, prior federal government spokesman, White House staff, political appointee, civil servant. I cover a range of political & public policy issues.

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