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Critics warn the move risks politicizing FCC authority and undermining press freedom.
Well duh, that's the point entirely.
As much as those networks helped him by ignoring half of what he said and going over everything Harris said with a fine-toothed-comb, it's kind of funny watching it bite them in the ass.
If they would have shown how weird he really is compared to Harris they wouldn't be in this mess right now.
But they just couldn't resist the ratings generated by normalizing him and keeping the race tight.
Now they're going to lose more than they gained from that ratings spike.
Anyone who wasn't sure that the "end weaponization of government" was projection...
Bro had every outlet giving him sloppy top and this is his response
With fascists, there's no end to loyalty tests.
There must always be an “in” to get toadies to join your ranks… and an “out” scapegoat to give them a target. Even if they are wildly successful at ridding 100% of the “outs,” there must be a new set of “outs” or you risk the “ins” blaming the leader for any of the problems they face as a result of the leader’s decisions.
Loyalty tests are a way of scaring “ins” to fall in line, lest they become “outs” as a result… but no amount of acts of loyalty keeps you from eventually being one of the “outs.”
Their “in” will always be an inward shrinking group.
His plan is to fuck them over anyway, just so other organizations know that it won't make a difference. They're an enemy if they ever air anything against him.
That's what those groveling losers get.
"Trump has also sued CBS over its Harris interview, alleging it was 'misleading.'"
Mother fucker "misleading" is literally all fox news does.
Stupid fucking Democrats are going to take the high road as usual and let him dump on everyone, but not even attempt to sue Fox for similar reasoning. Trump has already shown he's crushing the 1st amendment, the high road leads off a cliff there's no reason to take it.
I see the argument that if we let ABC, NBC and CBS fall, nobody is left is big enough to continue the fight.
But I would say they weren't on our side in the fight this time anyway.
Do we give a fuck if Fonald Trump brings down Disney's news division? Or GE/Comcast?
Donald Trump can go after any executive he wants as far as I am concerned. Let him focus on them so we can regroup without having the billionaires in control of our side as well.
If we let them fall, Fox and CNN will be the only real games in TV news.
TV news is dying anyway.
Do you really know anyone under the age of 50 who gets their news from television?
This is a nightmare. A very real step toward a fascist authoritarian dictatorship. Not not because of TV news. Because of what might happen to all other news outlets. He's has the biggest social platforms bowing to him already.
That's why it needs to he stopped. Not because of loosing a medium that's dying anyway. But because he wants to control all news media. We can't let him have any.
Absolutely.
To add to that, even though Trump complains about how the "mainstream media" treats him, in reality he has the actual mainstream media on his side (Joe Rogan, etc). Saw someone bring up a statistic the other day that pointed out that as far as audience reach: Kamala Harris would have had to appear on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC for 3 hours every night for two weeks, during prime time, to have the same reach Trump got from going on Joe Rogan.
Obviously that comparison is to cable channels rather than the broadcast channels the FCC has more authority to "investigate," but the allegations of "unfairness" are entirely out of touch with modern reality.
To the best of my knowledge, only about 1% of Americans are watching Fox and CNN on any given night.
I would also say that Fox and CNN viewers tend to be the dumbest and least informed of all news watchers.
Americans have to rebuild our media and we are doing it from the ground up. It is terrifying but the best thing that can happen for the left is for Trump to do the job of the communists without having let them taken power in the process. If he wants to create a power vacuum for us socialists to fill before he realized what he did, fucking let him.
I have to boggle at that. Probably 2/5 of the people older than 60 that I know have fox news (with a brief surge of newsmax or whatever back in 2021) on constantly. I know I've lived in some bloody regions, but it can't be such small number. My mind just boggles that I am somehow stuck so squarely in the midst of such fools when only 1% of americans have them on.
The statement was 1% of the US population is watching it on any given night. Some quick searching I found the most-watched cable news show is The Five from Fox News with 3.57M viewership.
335M people in the US, so that number is actually a bit greater than 1% of the entire US population.
335M * 24% * 64% = 51.5M
If the all their viewers are >60, then about 7% of all >60 people who care about politics could be watching that one Fox News show.
That’s not quite 2/5, but it’s still significant! And again, that accounts for only 1 show’s viewership. I couldn’t find easy numbers for how many people watch Fox News in a given day or week.
Sorry, you probably don’t care but your comment made me curious.
Oh, no. My comment history is littered with math like that. I'm swooning over here.
That's all well and good until he starts rounding up socialists before that power vacuum can be filled. You can sure that there will be witch hunts and show trials. Trump's too much of a Roy Cohn disciple not to use that standard totalitarian tactic.
At the bare minimum, if liberals started watching PBS for the nightly news, they would be better off.
Only 20% of public broadcasting budget is federally funded and they would need an act of congress to begin moderating content.
Which... the government does not produce the content nor do they own any of the radio stations. PRI & NPR are private companies who produce the content, and the stations, which are community owned, purchase the license to broadcast their content.
The public airwaves are already well protected against Trump and liberals need to get on them before they fall victim to the brainwashing.
I'd be perfectly happy if killing CBS causes libs to start watching Democracy Now.