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White House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting

One more thing: The chairman warns that stations should "correct course before their license renewals come up."

This report by CBS News says most license renewals will not come up until 2028 or 2030. After the next election.

www.cbsnews.com

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right," as Trump bemoans coverage of Iran war

In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could be revoked amid President Trump's criticisms of media coverage of the war in Iran.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

CNN's Brian Stelter wrote an analysis piece about this latest round from Carr, and says his threats "ring hollow:"

In reality, the FCC has not denied a license renewal in decades. Any government action against a licensee would cause a protracted legal battle, even more so given the current media-bashing climate, because a station would likely cite Trump’s retributive streak and mount a First Amendment case.

“Chairman Carr’s threats are hollow,” public interest lawyer Andrew Jay Schwartzman told CNN. “He poses no genuine danger to any broadcasters’ licenses based on his unhappiness with their content.”
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It has become increasingly obvious that Chairman Carrtoon is subscribing to the philosophy that power overrides process. As you have pointed out, A, a license revocation takes years of process. It doesn't happen on a single motion by the full Commission, and if they were to attempt such a thing, the licensee in jeopardy would get injunctive relief practically the next day.

And Stelter's analysis echoes what we have been saying already. A First Amendment case would not only be logical from a legal standpoint, it would generate bad publicity for Carr, the FCC as an agency, and the current administration ... and would no doubt extend well into the next administration (and, if a Democrat is sitting in the Oval Office, would likely quickly move to dismiss and make a big stink about how it came to be in the first place).

What the idiot-in-chief and his junior idiot at the Commission do not understand is that a lot of MAGAs even know their own free speech rights would be trampled by such an action ... and the Democrats would make sure the rest knew it was happening.
 
K.M. Richards said:
It has become increasingly obvious that Chairman Carrtoon is subscribing to the philosophy that power overrides process.
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However, that only applies when HE is in power. It will not extend to other chairmen from other parties.

Also, this government created the concept of "alternate facts." That alone threw out the idea of agreed-upon facts.

What does Carr recommend to broadcasters when the hoaxes and distortions are coming from the white house or pentagon?

Here's an example:

www.yahoo.com

Pete Hegseth Says Iran's New Supreme Leader Is 'Likely Disfigured' from War 2 Weeks After His Father's Assassination

Mojtaba Khamenei was named the successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday, March 8
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

There are no facts at all in this comment, other than Hegseth said it. What does Carr think about that?

The latest poll I saw is that trust in media is about equal to their trust in government. Maybe that's where the problem is.

www.pewresearch.org

Public Trust in Government: 1958-2025

While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is lower than it was last year (22%).
www.pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org
 
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K.M. Richards said:
It has become increasingly obvious that Chairman Carrtoon is subscribing to the philosophy that power overrides process. As you have pointed out, A, a license revocation takes years of process. It doesn't happen on a single motion by the full Commission, and if they were to attempt such a thing, the licensee in jeopardy would get injunctive relief practically the next day.

And Stelter's analysis echoes what we have been saying already. A First Amendment case would not only be logical from a legal standpoint, it would generate bad publicity for Carr, the FCC as an agency, and the current administration ... and would no doubt extend well into the next administration (and, if a Democrat is sitting in the Oval Office, would likely quickly move to dismiss and make a big stink about how it came to be in the first place).

What the idiot-in-chief and his junior idiot at the Commission do not understand is that a lot of MAGAs even know their own free speech rights would be trampled by such an action ... and the Democrats would make sure the rest knew it was happening.
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Its all true but apparently Chairman Carr thinks he can yank TV and Radio network licenses because it was done in the past 6 years in another country where that was the case in the Philippines. In that example the previous Philippine presidential administration did try to control the press corp by having congressional allies deny a license renewal to a TV and radio network when the news coverage didn't go their way.

www.aljazeera.com

Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN ordered shut

Allies of President Duterte refused to renew station's 25-year licence following his tirades against the company.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com

www.dw.com

Did Duterte target ABS-CBN news network?

Government officials say the parliamentary committee's decision to reject the news network's license has nothing to do with President Rodrigo Duterte's staunch criticism of ABS-CBN. But activists find it hard to accept.
www.dw.com www.dw.com
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Its all true but apparently Chairman Carr thinks he can yank TV and Radio network licenses because it was done in the past 6 years in another country where that was the case in the Philippines. In that example the previous Philippine presidential administration did try to control the press corp by having congressional allies deny a license renewal to a TV and radio network when the news coverage didn't go their way.
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I openly support Carrtoon (and anyone else in the administration, especially Kegseth, Blondi and Caro-lyin) relocating to the Philippines. And they can take the idiot-in-chief with them.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I openly support Carrtoon (and anyone else in the administration, especially Kegseth, Blondi and Caro-lyin) relocating to the Philippines. And they can take the idiot-in-chief with them.
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True but we keep running into the Putin comparisons with Hegseth, Trump, Vance, Carr for the past decade we associated Trump and politics together especially with the press. Its more like that administration wants him and his supporters to bring the Putin playbook here every time they open their mouths and the press from tv to radio to news sites point this out for a decade.

www.pbs.org

How Russia’s Press Freedom has Deteriorated Over the Decades Since Putin Came to Power | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

FRONTLINE takes a closer look at the different tactics that President Vladimir Putin’s government has used to clamp down on journalists in Russia, and the impact it’s had on press freedom.
www.pbs.org

rsf.org

Exclusive video interview with Russia correspondent Julian Colling, banned from the country until 2030

Julian Colling, a correspondent for several French news outlets in Moscow since 2017, has been banned from entering Russian territory until 2030. Having worked in the country for eight years, recounted to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) the alarming increase in restrictions on foreign...
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I knew what happened to the Philippine Network that lost their TV and Radio network license. ABS-CBN simply moved their shows to TV apps and podcast distribution to reach their viewers. Plus once the Philippines changed presidential administration, ABS-CBN News went on to cover that country's high profile Congressional Impeachment hearing involving their current Vice President and also an International Criminal Court hearing involving their former president. Keep in mind this happens to be within the same political family facing two high profile corruption and human rights issue cases at the same time. Rodrigo Duterte is their former president and his daughter Sara Duterte is that country's current Vice President/Presidential candidate for 2028.


 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
I knew what happened to the Philippine Network that lost their TV and Radio network license. ABS-CBN simply moved their shows to TV apps and podcast distribution to reach their viewers.
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That wouldn't stop Carrtoon and the idiot. They already both think networks have licenses and that they can regulate cable news programming by threatening their "licenses". No doubt they think podcasts have some kind of Internet license that they can threaten.

Nevertheless, the Philippines would seem enticing to them because they think their tactics would work there.
 
K.M. Richards said:
That wouldn't stop Carrtoon and the idiot. They already both think networks have licenses and that they can regulate cable news programming by threatening their "licenses". No doubt they think podcasts have some kind of Internet license that they can threaten.
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Actually Carr admits cable and streaming are exempt:

"Everyone that complies with the terms of the licenses should feel, you know, very comfortable," Carr said. "Anyone that doesn't like, you know, the contours of the licenses, they're fine to take it to cable or to a streaming service, or to turn the license in and do it a different way. But, you know, there is something unique about being on the broadcast airwaves."
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So really everyone IS in fact complying with the terms of their licenses. However, Carr is the one who is creating a hoax.
 
TheBigA said:
One more thing: The chairman warns that stations should "correct course before their license renewals come up."

This report by CBS News says most license renewals will not come up until 2028 or 2030. After the next election.

www.cbsnews.com

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right," as Trump bemoans coverage of Iran war

In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could be revoked amid President Trump's criticisms of media coverage of the war in Iran.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

CNN's Brian Stelter wrote an analysis piece about this latest round from Carr, and says his threats "ring hollow:"



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"There will be nothing on your airwaves but praise and worship of Glorious Leader Trump"
 
Meanwhile, among the media people being investigated by the government is Tucker Carlson. Or at least that's what HE says:


www.yahoo.com

Tucker Carlson Claims CIA Read His Texts, Says Agency Preparing Criminal Referral

Tucker Carlson said the CIA accessed his text messages and may refer a case to the Department of Justice over alleged Foreign Agents Registration Act violations tied to Iran contacts.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

nypost.com

Tucker Carlson claims CIA read his texts with Iran, is ‘framing’ him as foreign agent

“I’m not an agent of a foreign power… I have only one loyalty and that’s the United States,” Carlson said.
nypost.com nypost.com

Why does it matter? Because it appears that this government isn't selective in the citizens it chooses to investigate.

For all we know, it may be one of the hoaxes Chairman Carr is talking about.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/2032892227106804084

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032875355879690534

Democrats blast FCC Chair Carr's broadcast license threats as anti-First Amendment, 'totalitarian'


Heres is more This time from congressman Ted Lieu response to the FCC threat. Its because Ted Lieus congressional district is in Los Angeles which contains the west coast operations of the major TV Networks. Also when the California Governor responds to the FCC threat its because local public media stations in the state such as KQED could have their license questioned over the Iran news coverage via their affiliation with PBS and NPR. Yes I mean KQED role as West coast contributor to PBS Newshour, Frontline and NPR News.
 

Here is more fallout over this White House decision over Iran News coverage. Yes it contains the long running comparison between Trump and Putin.

After hearing Hegseth’s criticism last Friday, CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod observed, “It feels like a decision has been made that if the war news isn’t better, better to attack those who report news of the war.”

Axelrod theorized that Trump is “envious” of countries without a First Amendment: “Putin doesn’t have to put up with this!”

Major news outlets are undeterred by the administration’s criticism, recognizing that attempts to deter and discredit wartime reporting are as old as war coverage itself.

As CNN chairman and CEO Mark Thompson recently pointed out in a statement, “Politicians have an obvious motive for claiming that journalism which raises questions about their decisions is false. At CNN our only interest is in telling the truth to our audiences in the U.S. and around the world and no amount of political threats or insults is going to change that.”
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Y2kTheNewOldies said:
www.independent.co.uk

Trump demands death penalty charges over media’s coverage of Iran War

President’s latest criticism of the media comes as his FCC chairman threatens to revoke broadcasters’ license for their coverage of the Iran war
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Here is more on this and this time from the White House directly.
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Proper response: 25th amendment.

usaglobe24.com

BREAKING: U.S. Senators have officially called for the removal of President Trump under the 25th Amendment, which mandates that Trump’s close associates must…

BREAKING: U.S. Senators have officially called for the removal of President Trump under the 25th Amendment, which mandates that Trump’s close associates must… FULL DETAILS: **BREAKING: U.S. Senators Call for Trump’s Removal Under the 25th Amendment** Several U.S. lawmakers have recently renewed...
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TheBigA said:
Proper response: 25th amendment.

usaglobe24.com

BREAKING: U.S. Senators have officially called for the removal of President Trump under the 25th Amendment, which mandates that Trump’s close associates must…

BREAKING: U.S. Senators have officially called for the removal of President Trump under the 25th Amendment, which mandates that Trump’s close associates must… FULL DETAILS: **BREAKING: U.S. Senators Call for Trump’s Removal Under the 25th Amendment** Several U.S. lawmakers have recently renewed...
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Good luck getting the idiot-in-chief's cabinet to sign off on that.
 
www.chicagotribune.com

President Donald Trump lashes out at New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman with slew of insults

President Trump resurrected a pet nickname for New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman in his latest salvo against female reporters, threatening to sue her and the newspaper while …
www.chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com

people.com

Donald Trump Nicknames White House Correspondent 'Maggot' and Threatens to Sue Her, Along with 'The New York Times'

Donald Trump slammed 'The New York Times' journalist Maggie Haberman and threatened legal action against her, in addition to her publication, through a Truth Social post on March 14. It marked the president's latest attack on a female journalist.
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truthsocial.com

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth. In any event, I’m thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her...
truthsocial.com truthsocial.com

Heres more this time the White House itself goes after a member of the press in this case its New York Times Reporter Maggie Haberman in basically the same threats we seen Chairman Carr does that to TV Networks.
 
How I wish these two threads could be merged so it wouldn't be necessary for you to cross-post (which is technically against the rules).
 
K.M. Richards said:
How I wish these two threads could be merged so it wouldn't be necessary for you to cross-post (which is technically against the rules).
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Agreed given that Chairman Carr is directly controlling the Press Pool with Trump. Previously in this thread it was about the president controlling the press pool by going after wire services like AP and Reuters.

Also the other one about questioning network licenses it was originally directed at how that affects the Network owned stations and it was not specific to the press pool and it also contained parts where late night hosts did get targeted by Chairman Carr.
 
cc333 said:
Maybe @lanceventa can do it?
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I remember someone asking that in a similar situation and his response was that Xenforo doesn't allow it.

Apparently the only way to avoid duplicate threads is for people to not start them without seeing if another exists beforehand. And I know that's never going to happen around here.
 


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