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Trump: FCC Should Begin Challenging Network Licences Over "Fake News"
Topic Started: Oct 11 2017, 12:46 PM (12 Views)
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.....boy, you're feeling awful fascistic today, aren't you Trump, you Orange-Haired Shitgibbon?
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(Reuters) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump suggested challenging licenses for NBC and other broadcast news networks on Wednesday, a salvo that followed reports his own secretary of state had called him a “moron” after a discussion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

“With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!” Trump, a Republican, wrote in a post on Twitter.

Trump and his supporters have repeatedly used the term “fake news” to cast doubt on critical media reports about his administration, often without providing any evidence to support their case that the reports untrue.

Any move to challenge media companies’ licenses, however, would likely face significant hurdles.

The Federal Communications Commission does not license broadcast networks, but issues them to individual broadcast stations that are renewed on a staggered basis for eight-year periods.

Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), which owns NBC Universal, also owns 11 broadcast stations, including in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas and Chicago. A Comcast spokeswoman referred questions to NBC, which did not immediately Wednesday.

A spokesman for FCC chairman Ajit Pai did not immediately comment.

ABC, owned by Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), declined to comment.

Democratic Senator Ed Markey wrote Pai on Wednesday asking him to “withstand any urges from President Trump to harm the news media and infringe upon the First Amendment,” a reference to the U.S. constitutional guarantee of free speech and press freedom. Markey added that “it is inappropriate for the president to propose challenging broadcasters’ licenses because he disagrees with their coverage.”
-Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-media/trump-suggests-challenging-tv-network-licenses-over-fake-news-idUSKBN1CG1WB
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--The NBC threat is a reminder that if Trump were competent and powerful enough to be an authoritarian, he would be one. (Ezra Klein, Vox - 11 Oct. 2017)

--The president, sounding tyrant-adjacent, floats the idea of pulling news outlets off the air for critical stories about him. (Daniel Dale, Toronto Star - 11 Oct. 2017)

--Before Trump threatened NBC's license, McConnell said he'd make it easier to confirm his judges, who'd rule on legality of Trump's actions. (Pe Resists, 11 Oct. 2017)
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