# Jan 6 ceremony and NO members of the republican party attended except: **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 7, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-ceremony-and-no-members-of-the-republican-party-attended-except/957371 "2022-01-07T11:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 98
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-ceremony-and-no-members-of-the-republican-party-attended-except/957371/98 "2022-01-14T14:09:59Z")
There was actually a whole thread about it: > [@Can anything be done about obviously disinformational news outlets?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anything-be-done-about-obviously-disinformational-news-outlets/926048): > > After seeing the role that obviously wrong, inaccurate, and frankly fraudulent news sources like Newsmax, Fox News, OANN, Daily Caller, etc… have played in a lot of recent events, is there anything that can be done? The reason I ask is because it seems like there’s a fundamental difference between say… an editorial spin on things, which all reputable news sources have, and being a propaganda arm for a political philosophy or even more than that, being an active source of deliberate misinformati… There are some high-profile **[lawsuits](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/23/fact-check-post-makes-false-claim-dominions-defamation-lawsuit/8724697002/)** against some of these outlets, but it’s hard to know which way they’ll go, and – typical for late-stage capitalism – if the economic impact is one that can be absorbed (ie, more profit than pain at the end), nothing will change. Segmenting the market for “news” consumers was as brilliant from a business standpoint as it was devastating to a populace. Until and unless the strategy’s effectiveness wears off, I see very little standing in its way. I go back to primary education as a possible way to reduce ‘demand’ for these outlets, but education is just another very basic social service with nearly unlimited benefits that meets powerful resistance from the US Right Wing. Again: no coincidence, I’m sure. They’re evil but they’re not stupid. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-ceremony-and-no-members-of-the-republican-party-attended-except/957371)._