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"Soros-owned" radio station broadcasted undercover ICE agents location

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In point of fact, Soros doesn't "own" any of these stations. Under the terms of the agreement with the FCC, one of his firms only has warrants and has no voting power at any of the stations. Conservatives claimed he would affect the programming, and he has not.

BTW, Fox News has also been embedded with ICE agents, and has Dr. Phil.

nypost.com

Dr. Phil films as ICE targets migrants in Chicago

The TV host embedded with US immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago on Sunday, defending President Donald Trump’s deportation effort as the crackdown neared the end o…
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According to this story by CNN: Ice Raids Are Made For TV

As far as I know, the 1st Amendment still applies. The media has been invited to document these raids. ICE wants this to be covered.
 
Also its an Audacy owned Station KCBS-AM and KFRC-FM San Francisco that sent Bret Burkhart to cover these events. Plus why is the KCBS reporter Bret Burkhart being blamed here for stuff the assignment desk and News Director at KCBS. Also Multiple Bay Area News outlets were sent to San Jose to cover the ICE orders.


www.newsbusters.org

BETRAYAL: Soros-Controlled Station Unmasks Vehicles of ‘Undercover’ ICE Agents in San Jose

This weekend, a radio station owned by the George Soros-controlled Audacy outrageously identified the vehicle whereabouts of I
www.newsbusters.org www.newsbusters.org

KCBS 740 AM – not to be confused with the Los Angeles CBS affiliate – elevated the insane unmasking of ICE agents from the leftist Rapid Response Network, which fights against deportation initiatives during the January 26 edition of KCBS Radio Weekend News.


But to make matters worse, anchor Bret Burkhart gave exact descriptions of the vehicles the ICE agents were reportedly using, including specific locations. NewsNation confirmed January 27 that the agents were conducting an operation in the area around that time, meaning their cover was potentially blown.


Post Millennial senior editor Andy Ngo noted the agents were allegedly working “undercover.” KCBS, in effect, “put the law enforcement officers at serious risk while an operation was ongoing targeting violent, criminal foreign nationals,” Ngo concluded.
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Andy Travis said:
If I were Bret Burkhart, I'd be driving very carefully or taking Ubers for a while. This is getting nutty.

lawenforcementtoday.com

Soros-owned radio station broadcasted undercover ICE agents locations, vehicle descriptions during removal operations

An ICE operation in San Jose, CA was potentially compromised Sunday when a KCBS radio host broadcast undercover agents’ l...
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Burkhart doesn't work on Sundays, he does M-F PM Drive, so he is not the one who mentioned any ICE raids. And there is nothing that prevented mentioning it on a newscast, unless the station was informed under an embargo arrangement by the agency itself. Also, saying "ICE was spotted in San Jose" not only isn't illegal, it's next to useless. (Spend a day driving the streets and highways of SJ and you might get a feel for the size of it. Mentioning "San Jose" doesn't restrict ICE to staying within the San Jose City Limits. Often "San Jose" and "Silicon Valley" are treated by San Francisco media as if they are the same place, and those of us who live here (and most KCBS people likely reside in places like Orinda or Mill Valley) know it most definitely isn't.)
 
Weiserguy said:
Burkhart doesn't work on Sundays, he does M-F PM Drive, so he is not the one who mentioned any ICE raids. And there is nothing that prevented mentioning it on a newscast, unless the station was informed under an embargo arrangement by the agency itself. Also, saying "ICE was spotted in San Jose" not only isn't illegal, it's next to useless. (Spend a day driving the streets and highways of SJ and you might get a feel for the size of it. Mentioning "San Jose" doesn't restrict ICE to staying within the San Jose City Limits. Often "San Jose" and "Silicon Valley" are treated by San Francisco media as if they are the same place, and those of us who live here (and most KCBS people likely reside in places like Orinda or Mill Valley) know it most definitely isn't.)
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I hope you read the original "Newsbusters" article. It's a pile of incoherent crap with a fundraising pitch at the end and claims that Soros owns "40%" of Audacy which is not true. And, of course, we all know what these types of mentions of "Soros" are shorthand for.

I think this accusation has no credibility whatsoever. Alas, some people will fall for it.
 
Mark Roberts said:
I hope you read the original "Newsbusters" article. It's a pile of incoherent crap with a fundraising pitch at the end and claims that Soros owns "40%" of Audacy which is not true. And, of course, we all know what these types of mentions of "Soros" are shorthand for.

I think this accusation has no credibility whatsoever. Alas, some people will fall for it.
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True and Soros always mean Billionaire who only donates to Democrats like Governor Newsom type stuff. But Bret Burkhart didn't violate anything here. He just reported on what went down in that area based on what he saw at that time. Also News outlets in the Bay area have reported on similar raids when it's done by state and local police before and we never heard of stuff like that.
 
TheBigA said:
In point of fact, Soros doesn't "own" any of these stations. Under the terms of the agreement with the FCC, one of his firms only has warrants and has no voting power at any of the stations. Conservatives claimed he would affect the programming, and he has not.

BTW, Fox News has also been embedded with ICE agents, and has Dr. Phil.

nypost.com

Dr. Phil films as ICE targets migrants in Chicago

The TV host embedded with US immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago on Sunday, defending President Donald Trump’s deportation effort as the crackdown neared the end o…
nypost.com nypost.com

According to this story by CNN: Ice Raids Are Made For TV

As far as I know, the 1st Amendment still applies. The media has been invited to document these raids. ICE wants this to be covered.
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What I read said that he reported the exact location with vehicles description as it happened, maybe the 1 Amendment still applies but common sense should also apply. He can wait till after the raid is done and report on the location. In many occasions pursuits that were being broadcasted live on TV were terminated in areas where the locals dont like cops and mini riots have started over the arrest, actually it is a common practice by fleeing felon in south Los Angeles. What was done was foolish, politics show not be in the way of Officer's safety. Stuff like that will bring heat on the station and the reporter.
 
"Soros-owned" is a slur, designed to elicit hate and social media outrage, like a "Soros-backed" group, like the hateful Fla. governor claimed.
By DeSantis' reasoning, the NRA is a "David Duke-backed" group, as Duke is an NRA member.
Total nonsense.
 
This is the story that is being attributed to KCBS that was reported by all San Francisco media including NBC:

www.nbcbayarea.com

San Jose mayor, councilmember confirm ICE activity in San Jose

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Councilmember Peter Ortiz confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out an operation on the east side of town on Sunday.
www.nbcbayarea.com www.nbcbayarea.com

www.mercurynews.com

After ICE operation in Bay Area, officials pledge to defend immigrants

The federal agency did not provide any further information to San Jose police, the mayor’s office said.
www.mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com

www.ktvu.com

Rapid Response Network confirms ICE activity in San Jose

Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were reportedly spotted in San Jose Sunday, according to a tip received to the Rapid Response Network of Santa Clara County's hotline.
www.ktvu.com www.ktvu.com


It happened last weekend, not today. If you compare these stories with what's attributed to KCBS, they're all reporting the same facts, quoting the same sources.
 
They make it sound like his reporting was in Real Time. It was read from a release that had to be composed and sent or posted first.
 
xmtrland said:
They make it sound like his reporting was in Real Time. It was read from a release that had to be composed and sent or posted first.
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If you read the original twitter story from Andy Ngo, it has no specifics and no quotes. Just that the radio station reported an ICE raid. Then it extrapolated that the report put the ICE agents in danger. Then if you read the comments, someone brings up the Soros connection to the radio station. That's when the twitter-verse went crazy and all of a sudden, an innocent news reader is putting law enforcement at risk under orders from George Soros, and people are demanding the station get shut down. This is how very innocent things become turned into massive political stories.
 
bigdonho said:
I wonder why no one ever gets torked about "Murdoc backed" news outlets.
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That greedster Murdoch - who's barely hanging onto his life and his heirs are all fighting for his $$ -- has much more radio, TV and newspaper ownership than the tiny Soros holdings.

Soros is a smear word, when Murdoch and the Koch Bros. creeps should be shunned more for the harm they've done to America's political system.
 
Dondd said:
That greedster Murdoch - who's barely hanging onto his life and his heirs are all fighting for his $$ -- has much more radio, TV and newspaper ownership than the tiny Soros holdings.

Soros is a smear word, when Murdoch and the Koch Bros. creeps should be shunned more for the harm they've done to America's political system.
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But look at the profit they've made for their share holders. Isn't that all that matters?
 
And let's make it absolutely clear what's meant when the terms "Soros-owned", "Soros-backed", Soros-controlled" media are used:
Dondd said:
"Soros-owned" is a slur, designed to elicit hate and social media outrage, like a "Soros-backed" group, like the hateful Fla. governor claimed.
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What you should translate this to in your head every time you read it, is "that Leftist Socialist Communist Jew George Soros". Because that is exactly the implication the accusers want to leave you with, without overtly saying or writing it and showing their hands as to what they actually are, which is extreme right-wing anti-semites.

I have been observing this innuendo game being played for literally decades now. It so happens that George Soros's late, elder brother Paul was one of my fellow alumni, so I started to watch this game a long time ago. In all that time it's only gotten worse.
 
This original post is based on a link to a rewrite of a story from Newsbusters, which happens to be operated by the Media Research Council, the same organization who filed the petition against the Audacy restructuring so is EXTREMELY biased and looking for reasons to go after the company. And since

Please check sources before posting and also when reading anything.

And because like so many other threads, this is moving into personal politics its time to close it.
 
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