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The Trump Administration rants about ABC News And NBC, Says They Should Lose FCC Licenses
- Thread starter Y2kTheNewOldies
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True too all the White House would do is copy the same press pool policy the Pentagon recently had and replace the Press pool with major media outlets to propagandists. Yes that means the Trump Administration can do the same stuff such as decide who goes in the press pool or not. Yes this includes ABC and NBC News being removed from press pools.
I doubt there’s a network license Chairman Carr can yank but that puts local O&O’s in a scary position given that they represent major cities affiliates in that position.
More reaction to president's comments about ABC News:
barrettmedia.com
News Media Shows Support for ABC News' Mary Bruce After Sparring with President Donald Trump
Colleagues came to the support of Mary Bruce, calling her courageous for asking the question, and also standing up for her by stating she's a fantastic reporter.
barrettmedia.com
Not surprising and congrats to Mary Bruce in this position. But the uncertainty here is the next move by the FCC how they would react to stuff like this. The Network Owned stations are going to have to spend more time with the legal team of their parent company on what to do when the President and FCC interferes with the First Amendment as we seen here. As mentioned here we have an idea which Disney Owned stations are getting targeted the most by the FCC and yes it’s includes KABC-TV given that the headquarters of Disney is in Burbank. They can make Disney owned stations streaming only on Hulu and Disney+ if they want to do that but this is yet to be seen here given it comes off as the White House wanting to censor certain media outlets as seen in the press briefing in the White House.More reaction to president's comments about ABC News:
News Media Shows Support for ABC News' Mary Bruce After Sparring with President Donald Trump
Colleagues came to the support of Mary Bruce, calling her courageous for asking the question, and also standing up for her by stating she's a fantastic reporter.
Who did that? I haven't heard of Fallon getting in trouble.
I think I do recall Seth being mentioned.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litig...trump-abc-threat-would-fail-court-2025-11-20/
Yes it’s stuff we have been saying for some time now. The station most affected by the FCC license threat over ABC News is KABC-TV Los Angeles given the obvious such as Disney’s main office is in Burbank. The member of the FCC board that’s saying this is Anna Gomez and yes networks cannot have their license revoked as said here and the first amendment issue is at play here.
Yes it’s stuff we have been saying for some time now. The station most affected by the FCC license threat over ABC News is KABC-TV Los Angeles given the obvious such as Disney’s main office is in Burbank. The member of the FCC board that’s saying this is Anna Gomez and yes networks cannot have their license revoked as said here and the first amendment issue is at play here.
Trump calls for NBC to fire Seth Meyers, FCC Chair Brendan Carr weighs in
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has amplified a call from President Donald Trump for Seth Meyers to be fired.
www.usatoday.com
Again Brendan Carr and the White House has no power to order Comcast to fire Seth Myers. This is one continuation over the first amendment and how Comcast legal team has to respond when the FCC gets involved with political interference with the license of Comcast owned TV stations like KNBC-TV and WNBC-TV.
Agreed that the FCC can't revoke (or even refuse to renew) a broadcast license on the basis of the dotard in the White House objecting to a question that was asked by a reporter. It was never easy for the FCC to revoke/non-renew a license, but the deregulation of the 80s and 90s made it even tougher.
That said, imagine that the current chairman of the FCC tries to do it anyway. I would expect that the impacted licensee would challenge the FCC's actions in court and would prevail. The problem for the licensee is that can be a slow and expensive process -- and while that process is going on, they are not only bleeding money in legal fees, but they're also frozen in many other respects. Until the conflict is resolved, they can't sell the station and they'd probably not be able to buy another station, either. So while they'll eventually win in court, the temptation is to decide it isn't worth the hassle and just to do what the autocrats in power want them to do in order to avoid the fight. And that's really what the Trump administration is hoping for.
What theyre going to do is try and tie/make a connection between the network and its over the air affiliates, even if they arent owned by the network, and the pressure put on the affiliates will make the network "behave"
Ummm….with this judiciary?
It’s almost like they’re running a mafia-esque protection scheme. Give me what I want or I’ll make you suffer. Totally normal.
Again….you think laws matter to SCOTUS?
Fascism at work.
Threats and extortion.
I doubt it.
Yup.
Not too much anymore. For what little it's worth, the law and Constitution still seems to matter to some of the liberal justices (see Justice Sotomyor's (sp?) scathing dissent on the POTUS immunity ruling last year, for example), but since they're outnumbered 2 to 1 (2 conservatives for every one liberal), their impact is rather limited.
Sure seems like it.
Absolutely.
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Seth Meyers Loses It Over Trump's Latest Social Media Rant: 'Is There No Character Limit on Truth Social?!' | Video Here's more from Seth Meyers as he is the target of Trump's rants and yes the target of "Having NBC's Licence questioned" even though we mentioned that Comcast owned NBC Affiliates have to watch out for Brendan Carr's response.
Letterman slams 'dictator' Trump for calling for Seth Meyers' firing
David Letterman is standing up for his friend Seth Meyers as President Donald Trump calls for the "Late Night" host to lose his job.
www.usatoday.com
David Letterman responds to the latest part of the feud between the White House and Seth Meyers on NBC. Yes it includes the political interference by the White House to demand Comcast to fire Seth Meyers in the article.
Here's a quote from David Letterman that is included in the article that you linked:Letterman slams 'dictator' Trump for calling for Seth Meyers' firing
David Letterman is standing up for his friend Seth Meyers as President Donald Trump calls for the "Late Night" host to lose his job.www.usatoday.com
David Letterman responds to the latest part of the feud between the White House and Seth Meyers on NBC. Yes it includes the political interference by the White House to demand Comcast to fire Seth Meyers in the article.
I just wanted to note that one of the frequent attacks on today's late night hosts that I hear from the right is how they're so much more political than their predecessors were. Right-wingers frequently cite David Letterman as an example of when they liked late night television.
And I have little doubt that was true during the time when Letterman was a late night host, which was 1982 to 2015. During that time, we had Reagan, Bush, Clinton, the second Bush, and Obama as presidents. All of whom were sane presidents who respected the norms and the dignity of the office. And I suspect that if we had a president (of either party) who was like any of those presidents, we would likely see late night comedy become less political again.
Conversely, if David Letterman were still hosting late night, the implication of his comment is that he likely would be significantly more political than he was in the past. All of which is to say that the problem isn't the late night talk show hosts, it is the current president. Period.
True too.
Also if David Letterman was still doing the Late Show he would be in the same seat as Colbert, Kimmel and Meyers are today wondering if they would be removed from TV because the president ordered Chairman Carr of the FCC to investigate networks. Note David Letterman post Late Show have been doing specials for Netflix as his recent credits.
White House Launches “Media Offender of the Week” Section on Its Website
CBS News, The Boston Globe and The Independent were cited on the web page, which debuted Friday.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Trump Unveils “Media Offender Of the Week” + “Hall Of Shame” On White House Website: David Ellison-Owned & Bari Weiss-Run CBS News Makes The List
Targeting the so-called "enemy of the people," the Trump White House has gone after media outlets it claims put out "false and misleading stories"
deadline.com
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.
www.whitehouse.gov
Here we go again this time the White House is accusing members of the press pool he accuses of being biased and fake news. Oddly enough KTLA Los Angeles got included on that White House list even though Nexstar's national news content is from NewsNation or The Hill. That's strange KTLA was never in the White House Press pool to begin with. But when the president goes after the White House Press pool we know where this is going the national TV networks have to watch out for Chairman Carr over their licenses of their local affiliates.
Attachments
Terrifyingly fascist
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Sad to say, the only thing about this that surprises me is that the idiot-in-chief didn't think to weaponize the White House website like this sooner.