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PBS shuts down office focused on DEI initiatives

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PBS shuts down DEI office following Trump executive order

PBS says it will close its DEI office, with two employees leaving the broadcaster, following Donald Trump's DEI-focused executive order in January.
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This comes after PBS was the target of an FCC Investigation with NPR. Yes whatever policies PBS had on DEI extends to the local affiliates. Also in past threads we mentioned that CPB funds the local affiliates of PBS and NPR.

 
DEI has become a target. People need to see what it was like before, because they've obviously forgotten. DEI happened because companies kept getting sued. So now, people need to start suing employers more often. People either don't remember or don't know what happened in the 60s with civil rights marches and riots. People don't like being put down, having their rights taken away, or being marginalized for who or what they are. The government isn't going to protect them anymore. Employers aren't going to protect them anymore. They're on their own. What happens next is up to them.
 
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FCC to use Comcast DEI probe to launch similar investigations against other telecoms, broadcasters

The FCC intends to use materials obtained from its investigation of Comcast over DEI initiatives to help the agency probe other telecoms and broadcasters on the same issue in the future.
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Here is more on the FCC and DEI policies. This time NBC and now local TV stations like WCBS-TV, WNBC and WPVI faces the FCC too.

Last month, Carr ordered three probes against local TV stations — two each in New York City and one in Philadelphia — to be re-opened after his predecessor, Jessica Rosenworcel, dismissed them weeks prior to his promotion. Rosenworcel said the investigations against WCBS-TV (Channel 2) and WNBC (Channel 4) in New York and WPVI (Channel 6, ABC) in Philadelphia were politically-motivated.
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AbrahamJSimpson said:
May we direct attention to point 9 as it relates specifically to media. This is textbook, across the board.
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Here's the interesting part of this iteration: They are cracking down on the media BUSINESS, while also encouraging individual free speech.

Am I right? If an individual starts a podcast, regardless of politics, the speech is left alone. But if you work for a media company, that's different.

We'll see what happens when individual free speech becomes a movement. So far, that hasn't happened yet.
 
One step at a time? Too little a fish at the moment? Everybody and their mother, figuratively, has a podcast. But the distribution of those…it’s not at all hard to imagine pressure on the major distribution platforms to find ways to suppress any that they find to be a thorn in their side.

On the other hand, they can harness the acolytes to other work for them. Badmouth one and watch what the crowd does to it. These are people who made death threats to a bishop. A bishop. Over a passing line in a sermon. Are we really to believe that the administration can’t crowdsource that into the kind of behavior that shuts down opposition without getting their own hands dirty?
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Are we really to believe that the administration can’t crowdsource that into the kind of behavior that shuts down opposition without getting their own hands dirty? for them. Badmouth one and watch what the crowd does to it.
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Welcome to the 21st century. That's the world we live in. So it's now time to harness the power of the crowd. Start with an interpretation of the first amendment that these companies aren't protected. That's how conservatives see it. Companies are the enemy. Speech is protected, not the company.
 
But only approved speech. And companies that engage in approved speech are protected. The FCC chair reopened three cases his predecessor dismissed, but left one alone. Let’s not pretend it’s a coincidence which one remained dead.
 
It is literally in their decision to leave the claim against a Fox affiliate stay closed while claims against the others were revived. All the complaints were about supposed bias. Come on. This is not even disguised.
 
All four complaints were dismissed on the same day by Jessica Rosenworcel. The magic time limit did not end for one and not the others nor did the new FCC chair cite that as a reason that three of four dismissed on the same day less than a week earlier, were revived. In a particularly craven move, he blamed the "treatment" by the previous administration--which ended in dismissal and no action, but hey, whatevs--was somehow a justification for this petty vendetta.

Defending tyrants isn't a good look.
 
Um, yeah, wouldn't we want the agency that has such power over mass media to be actually fair and neutral? That hardly seems like a stretch, and it's precisely what the last chairperson did when she kicked all four complaints to the curb on first amendment grounds, regardless of whether the complaints came from the right or left. It's really not a high bar for an expectation but maybe when certain media outlets are targeted for purely political purposes, that is something some folks find to be a positive.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Um, yeah, wouldn't we want the agency that has such power over mass media to be actually fair and neutral?
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They told everyone what they were going to do if they got elected. They laid it out in a book. Everyone knows they aren't playing by the rules. Their leader is a convicted criminal. Then he got elected. What do you expect? Like most criminals, they will use every advantage they have to get what they want.

As I said: Tell it to the judge.
 
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