Textbook behavior of an authoritarian regime. Trying to control the news media.Speaking of the president suing media organizations, he lost his appeal in the CNN lawsuit:
Next stop, SCOTUS? Trump loses latest appellate step in his ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN
Federal judges, including ones appointed by Trump, keep ruling against his defamation suit.www.yahoo.com
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The Trump Administration rants about ABC News And NBC, Says They Should Lose FCC Licenses
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What happens is there's an immediate campaign from the president and even Dan Bongino to attack the credibility of the person who quit.
Bongino fires back at Joe Kent's claim Iran posed 'no imminent threat' to US
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino challenges ex-counterterrorism official's claim that Iran poses no imminent threat, citing classified intelligence.
So now there's someone "in the media" who parrots the government talking points. He's not a reporter or in news, but he's on the radio.
That brings up what I said earlier. Reporters need independent verification of what they report. It's all sourced to someone. Some of those sources are inside the administration and the pentagon. What the government is trying to do is shut down all of those sources, so the only source of information on this war is the president. Then the question becomes how truthful is the reporting? Is it in the public interest to wage a war using taxpayer money, and the only source of information about that war is the president? Biased reporting isn't just about the media. It's about where the media gets its information. So if the only source is biased, then the reporting will be biased.
This is an excellent piece about “rapidly autocratizing”
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And now four former Republican FCC commissioners are calling for Carr's ouster:
www.tvtechnology.com
Ex-FCC Republicans Urge Congress to Step In Over ‘Unfit’ Carr
Lawmakers urged to weigh ‘serious remedies’ against chair’s threats to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war coverage
www.tvtechnology.com
And those O&O stations are in the very top markets, making up as much as a third of the U.S. ADI populations.
Two of the networks in Venezuela lost their licenses when the now-neutered socialist dictatorship of Chávez and Maduro took them over. This is in addition to closing more than half the radio stations there.
The similar but even more brutal government of Nicaragua has even closed Church operated TV and radio stations.
I realize that, it just seems that he has made the facile assumption that either networks are licensed, or that all network affiliates are owned by their respective networks.
You know that a huge percentage of the population finds the OTA networks biased, and Trump is just vocalizing this sentiment.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Which a FCC commissioner should know, even if not the chair. (My point being that Carrtoon is only giving the idiot-in-chief's rants more credibility by going along with the deception.)
So what you're saying is that this country's president wants to act like the man he arrested.
He's vocalizing his personal opinion. Not unlike the opinion of Maduro.
No, I am saying that the events in the Philippines are not unique.
A significant percentage of the population does believe that the 3 OTA networks that have daily newscasts are significantly biased, both in the style, writing, omission/inclusion of news stories and in the content of their talk shows.
I can't even watch those network's entertainment shows because they are peppered with jaded promos for their late night talk shows. All Trump is doing for "us" is speaking with a louder voice.
Or FDR, for that matter. Or look at how various presidents attacked or allied with the "yellow journalism" if the very late 1800's and early 20th Century.
And Maduro and his idol did not criticize local journalists and media outlooks; he imprisoned the reporters and nationalized the networks.
A significant percentage of the population believe in the first amendment. Nobody forces them to watch OTA networks. If they don't like it, they can change the channel. The president doesn't determine what TV networks say. Neither does the FCC.
There is no fairness doctrine in this country. God bless America.
You're outside their target demo.
This president has already says he wants to charge them with treason, punishable by death. He's more extreme than Maduro.
Trump Says He Wants Some Media Outlets to Face 'Charges for Treason' in Latest Rant Against Journalists
The president accused Iran and the media of using AI to spread misinformation about the ongoing war
And there is no law against disliking and opposing the focus of the only 3 English language OTA networks that do regular news broadcasts, all of which are felt to be biased by a huge percentage of Americans.
It's been about a decade since Trump seriously participated in politics. We should also know he deals with hyperbole to make a point..
The constitution gives the networks the right to report whatever they want, and it protects them from a tyrannical president and FCC from interfering.
There is no law preventing other companies from doing regular news broadcasts. They choose not to do it.
Fine. Let him retire and let someone younger run the country.
But calling attention to the lack of "fair play" through hyperbole and verbal jousting is a good way of making more people aware of this.
Age bias, anyone?
He's not "calling attention." He threatening the death penalty. His FCC chief is threatening license revocation. They are very obvious about it. That is more extreme than simply stating an opinion. People don't need to be "made aware" of something if you say they already know it.
Once again, the opportunity is there for anyone else to compete with a better product.
He attacked Biden's age. Now the shoe's on the other foot.
And there is no law against disliking and opposing the focus of the only 3 English language OTA networks that do regular news broadcasts, all of which are felt to be biased by a huge percentage of Americans.
It's been about a decade since Trump seriously participated in politics. We should also know he deals with hyperbole to make a point..
Again, I clearly see that as hyperbole. Trump uses that device often to make a point.
But the whole Commission has to vote on any action, and some aspects are beyond the Commission's jurisdiction. Again, speaking out calls attention to the underlying issue as perceived by the red half of the country.
If just one "awareness" occasion were enough, P&G would have stopped advertising Crest around 1955.
Yet it is obvious that, today, nobody is going to start a new OTA TV network. And ABC, CBS and NBC are too entrenched to do anything other than a very slow "sea turn".
He attacked Biden's mental deterioration brought on by poor ageing. That is different.
You realize you can be arrested if you or anyone else threatens the president with death. It's not hyperbole. It's madness.
You keep throwing up this mythical statistic of "half of the country." Just because they voted for this president doesn't mean they agree with everything he says or does. We will see that in November.
They don't have to start a network to do a national nightly news program. They won't do it because they know they own stations in mostly blue cities.
It's not different. This president's condition is far worse. It was bad in the first administration, and his cabinet knew about it.
Today the FCC approved the Nexstar Tegna merger specifically to address the power of the networks:
The question is: Will the media bureau do a follow up one year later to assess the investment made in local news and reporting? No.