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The Trump Administration rants about ABC News And NBC, Says They Should Lose FCC Licenses

davideduardo said:
Correction. Not "immigrant". Illegal immigrant (with multiple Mara Salvatrucha tattoos, impossible to ignore on a native Salvadoran, The "Salva" in "Salvatrucha" is a contraction of "Salvador".
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In the interview, she claimed he's a wife beater and child abuser. Neither have been substantiated.

The only thing he's been charged with is human smuggling, and he's pleaded not guilty.
 
TheBigA said:
In the interview, she claimed he's a wife beater and child abuser. Neither have been substantiated.

The only thing he's been charged with is human smuggling, and he's pleaded not guilty.
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But he is a confirmed illegal immigrant and tattoo bearing Mara member.

If you were never in El Salvador prior to the current administration, it was common to be told to wear bullet proof vests and not go go out after sunset. I worked with a number of stations there over the years; the photo of me on my profile is in front of the microphone of YSU in San Salvador!

And, yes, I was usually handed a vest by the station owner I worked with during the years of "El Problema" right at the airport. On one visit, on the way to the station, I asked how things "had been going" there. The response was, "Much better. It has been weeks since I saw a dead body on the street!"

Many if not most stations had relocated to an area that was well secured. Otherwise, they had to pay vigorish to the Mara or have their offices firebombed. The poor AM stations, with remote towers and sites, were burnt or the tower was cut down. All stations were afraid to criticize the Mara or their owner would be killed.

This is not the kind of person who should be in the United States. I can't understand or even believe that anyone would support their presence here.
 
davideduardo said:
This is not the kind of person who should be in the United States. I can't understand or even believe that anyone would support their presence here.
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It's not the job of the media to decide who should be in the country. Noem is trying to convict someone in the media because she can't do it in court. The media doesn't have to help her in her quest. Noem needs to do a better job in court and not blame the media for what she's been unable to prove.

Lying about someone on TV won't get that person deported.
 
Miss Tuned said:
This isn't quite it. They've mandated that any website offering content unsuitable for kids (for the most part, this means porn websites) has to have age verification in place. This has to be more than just the old-school "are you over 18? yes" checkboxes that sites have had for years. In general, it means submitting your ID to some random "age verification provider", who does god only knows what with your personal data.

Mostly, it's adults trying to access legal adult content who have been impacted by having to send ID to unknown, often foreign, companies, and it will not stop a single teenage boy from loading up porn.

Some issues have come from trying to tell non-UK-based websites what to do. I think the plan is to block those websites. Personally, I think it'll simply funnel users who would previously have stayed on legal adult websites onto the shadier corners of the internet while harming content creators' incomes through increased use of pirate material.
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Some US state legislatures have also passed laws to do this in their state, but just with porn sites.
 
It's going to have a chilling effect on serious center to left opinion, what little remains on radio and television anyways. Seeing a pretty hearty and much more violent embrace of so called "cancel culture" spreading across social media too.

What a time to be a broadcaster or have any opinion that differs from the MAGA mainstream.
 
Andy Travis said:
It's going to have a chilling effect on serious center to left opinion, what little remains on radio and television anyways. Seeing a pretty hearty and much more violent embrace of so called "cancel culture" spreading across social media too.

What a time to be a broadcaster or have any opinion that differs from the MAGA mainstream.
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It's very scary times in this once free country, "The Land of the Free."
 
Andy Travis said:
It's going to have a chilling effect on serious center to left opinion, what little remains on radio and television anyways. Seeing a pretty hearty and much more violent embrace of so called "cancel culture" spreading across social media too.

What a time to be a broadcaster or have any opinion that differs from the MAGA mainstream.
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Like the right, and the Christian right did in the 80s, left-leanimg, center left and even hard left people will need to build parallel institutions including news, media and social media. Maybe there's a place for those small AM stations after all.
 
gr8oldies said:
Like the right, and the Christian right did in the 80s, left-leanimg, center left and even hard left people will need to build parallel institutions including news, media and social media. Maybe there's a place for those small AM stations after all.
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Maybe the small mom-and-pop stations, but don't count on the greedy Republican corporate radio owners selling any underperforming stations. These are the corps that bought every station they could and placed only one-sided talk radio content on it (as if the other 60% of American don't count) won't sell the stations if they know they would be programmed by those holding political views these mega chain owners disagree with.

One radio CEO, when introduced to successful progressive host Thom Hartmann, said he would NEVER place anyone on his stations "who wants to increase my income taxes."

So it's NOT about "capitalism" and "free enterprise." It's al about politics and programming political propaganda.

These radio owners have a public-funded monopoly. They will do everything they can to protect it.
 
Dondd said:
Maybe the small mom-and-pop stations, but don't count on the greedy Republican corporate radio owners selling any underperforming stations.
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The larger companies are either owned by shareholders or by investment banks who do not get involved in individual station formats.
Dondd said:
These are the corps that bought every station they could and placed only one-sided talk radio content on it (as if the other 60% of American don't count)
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Several of the largest owners tried affiliating significant stations with liberal Air America. It started off with promise, but could not sustain audience. The network failed, and the owners moved on to try other things that might work.
Dondd said:
won't sell the stations if they know they would be programmed by those holding political views these mega chain owners disagree with.
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That is absolutely false. The large owners are keeping some fairly poor stations to clear their own network shows, but many have been closed or sold. Most have gone to religious or ethnic broadcasters as there are really no investors who want to try liberal talk again.
Dondd said:
One radio CEO, when introduced to successful progressive host Thom Hartmann, said he would NEVER place anyone on his stations "who wants to increase my income taxes."
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So? I sort of feel the same way! Not wanting to pay more taxes is not a sin.
Dondd said:
So it's NOT about "capitalism" and "free enterprise." It's al about politics and programming political propaganda.
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There is no proof to anything you say, and lots of facts that contradict it.
Dondd said:
These radio owners have a public-funded monopoly. They will do everything they can to protect it.
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You have no clue what a "monopoly" is. When radio has lost nearly 75% of its AQH listening in the last decade to new media, the "monopolies" are to be found in the big streaming outlets, not local radio stations.

There are about 15,000 stations in the U.S. The top 5 "big" station owners, including non-commercial K-Love, have around 12% of them.

And commercial radio is not "public funded". Where did you get that?
 
davideduardo said:
And commercial radio is not "public funded". Where did you get that?
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"Publicly protected" was what I should've typed.
When the entry level is $40-50-100 million to purchase an FM station, which few can afford, and the broadcast owners' FCC-enforced situation, along with potential competitors practically barred from entry because the major players own most of the most powerful stations, leaving mostly lower-powered "pirate" stations, non-comms or community stations, it's a monopoly in many eyes.
 


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