Summary
Trump is firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees despite recent fatal air crashes, CNN reports.
The AFL-CIO says terminations were issued Friday, with affected staff possibly locked out of FAA facilities after Monday.
Aviation safety union PASS calls the cuts “dangerous,” especially after four deadly incidents in the past month.
Critics argue these moves risk public safety amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.
This is a great time for anyone thinking of flying to the U.S. to reconsider.
America is becoming a very dangerous country to visit and travel inside.
Best to find another destination to travel in that’s safe and can ensure you remain safe. American cannot.
What’s wild is how quickly a motivated fascist has been able to dismantle the government…
It’s been in the making for 30 years, this is just the endgame. Fox News started in 1996.
Turning point imho is 1987 with the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine. This is what created our current media landscape, where all the news is extremely right leaning and doesn’t even need to be true.
Nope, this is a culture war distraction. The fairness doctrine was an affront to free speech so we can go back and forth about its merits and detractions as nauseam. The real problem is the lost class war that allows any single human to be wealthy enough to own an entire media machine in the first place.
Yeah, fairness doctrine is shit. I would prefer a law where when a media source deliberately spreads misinformation, the must provide equal time and visibility for an approved retraction.
So when fox had all those assholes come on and talk about how migrants were eating all the cats and dogs, based on one the Twitter post recounting the story of a friends daughter’s friend’s temporarily missing cat, they should have had to run equal time segments on the same channels and local stations admitting that they failed a basic journalistic test to question the validity of that info, and that after further investigation it appears to be blatantly false.
