Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
Chairman Brendan Carr revives bias complaints against CBS, ABC, and NBC stations.
Who had "Freedom of Press" as one of the first pillars to fall?
There goes Sinclair media group, right?
This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy
Going right to the top, you mean?
The stations in question:
WNBC - New York City NBC affiliate owned and operated by NBC
WCBS - New York City CBS affiliate owned and operated by CBS
WPVI - Philadelphia ABC affiliate owned and operated by ABC
Clearly sending a specific message by going after complaints specifically from first-party stations in large markets.
Who had “Freedom of Press” as one of the first pillars to fall?
Are you kidding? On the fascism bingo card, that's the free space.
They learned from Hungary, that in democracy if you control media, you control how people vote.
I mean the US was already about 70% there, much farther than almost every other Western country..
Not that the remaining 30% isn't CRUCIAL, mind you, but let's not pretend that nothing was wrong with just about every aspect of the US political system before Trump et al took it to 11..
Everyone who’s been paying attention knew this was coming.
Do I take the angle that they did this to themselves or do I take the Angle that I hate the Constitution UNLESS I'm Defending a Mass Child Killing Murderer?