Media is dying
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Mongoose
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How is it that they can bring Kimmel back on? I thought Hitler demanded that he be taken off the air? I'm now finding out that Hitler didn't even cause him to get removed from TV and it was just his terrible ratings. You mean the TV lied to me and now he will be back on the air? I dont know how to process this...
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Right wingers are such pathetic bitches
Mongoose
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lol pathetic fat ***, lonely, angry left wingers.... "but my tv show"
View: https://x.com/Timcast/status/1970472030609834058
No matter how many right wing grifters get paid, no matter how many bots are paid for, right wing ******** will never be more popular than liberal/left media.
Red
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And, of course, some in the fascist government wish to eradicate any dissent from America’s media landscape.
Critics have recently called Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, dangerous and a national censor.
His response? Bring it.
Since “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was temporarily yanked from the airwaves after Mr. Carr took issue with the ABC host’s comments about the man accused of shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the 46-year-old regulator has been emboldened in his battle to stop what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts, according to two people familiar with his thinking.
Mr. Carr has appeared on conservative radio talk shows and Fox News to defend his actions, saying local broadcasters were finally serving audiences tired of biased programming. He has suggested the F.C.C. should investigate ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” over its political content. He said he planned to continue the agency’s work to empower local TV stations to reject the shows they disagree with.
Some of his rhetoric about ABC has softened a bit since, but his overall message has remained the same: He will not stop. “There are a lot of Democrats out there that are engaged in a campaign of projection and distortion,” he said at a conference on Monday. “They are completely misrepresenting the work of the F.C.C. and what we’ve been doing.”
The F.C.C. will continue with its Congressional mandate to ensure broadcast TV serves the public interest, he said, adding, “If people don’t like it, they can go to Congress and change the law.”
Driven by the belief that liberal tech and media companies have unfairly silenced viewpoints on the right, Mr. Carr is working to transform the F.C.C. from a once sleepy agency best known for licensing local TV stations and expanding 5G cellular networks into a protector of conservative speech. In particular, he is working on broadening the agency’s mandate to referee what appears on televisions, according to interviews with 10 current and former F.C.C. officials.
Mr. Carr, who became the F.C.C. chairman in January, has argued in recent days that he has been a consistent champion of the First Amendment and said he was helping protect free speech by weighing in on local TV programming decisions that no longer serve the public interest.
As part of those efforts, Mr. Carr has reopened complaints that accuse ABC, NBC and CBS of biased programming during the 2024 election — including investigating “Saturday Night Live” for a pre-election episode in which then-Vice President Kamala Harris was a guest. He is investigating PBS and NPR over accusations that the public news organizations violated rules that prevented them from airing commercials. He has also warned that he can block media mergers that may harm local stations’ independence.
Now, Mr. Carr is leveraging the agency’s power to withhold local TV stations’ licenses if they do not serve the public interest by airing biased coverage.
When Mr. Carr last week criticized Mr. Kimmel, he suggested the agency could look into pulling local stations’ licenses for broadcasting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Two major local TV station groups, Nexstar and Sinclair, later said they would not air the show. While Mr. Kimmel’s show returned on Tuesday, both station groups decided against broadcasting it. Mr. Carr praised their decision.
“Notably, this is the first time recently that any local TV stations have pushed back on a national programmer like Disney,” he posted on Tuesday on X. “And that is a good thing because we want empowered local TV stations.”
Mr. Carr’s actions have raised alarms from many lawmakers on the left as well as some on the right, including Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, for stepping on First Amendment rights, while winning praise from President Trump, who has been ramping up efforts to punish his enemies and critics.
“This is a level of censorship we haven’t seen in my lifetime,” said Chris Lewis, the president of the left-leaning public interest group Public Knowledge.
Mr. Carr did not respond to a request for comment. An F.C.C. spokesman declined to comment, pointing to Mr. Carr’s recent interviews.
Critics have recently called Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, dangerous and a national censor.
His response? Bring it.
Since “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was temporarily yanked from the airwaves after Mr. Carr took issue with the ABC host’s comments about the man accused of shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the 46-year-old regulator has been emboldened in his battle to stop what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts, according to two people familiar with his thinking.
Mr. Carr has appeared on conservative radio talk shows and Fox News to defend his actions, saying local broadcasters were finally serving audiences tired of biased programming. He has suggested the F.C.C. should investigate ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” over its political content. He said he planned to continue the agency’s work to empower local TV stations to reject the shows they disagree with.
Some of his rhetoric about ABC has softened a bit since, but his overall message has remained the same: He will not stop. “There are a lot of Democrats out there that are engaged in a campaign of projection and distortion,” he said at a conference on Monday. “They are completely misrepresenting the work of the F.C.C. and what we’ve been doing.”
The F.C.C. will continue with its Congressional mandate to ensure broadcast TV serves the public interest, he said, adding, “If people don’t like it, they can go to Congress and change the law.”
Driven by the belief that liberal tech and media companies have unfairly silenced viewpoints on the right, Mr. Carr is working to transform the F.C.C. from a once sleepy agency best known for licensing local TV stations and expanding 5G cellular networks into a protector of conservative speech. In particular, he is working on broadening the agency’s mandate to referee what appears on televisions, according to interviews with 10 current and former F.C.C. officials.
Mr. Carr, who became the F.C.C. chairman in January, has argued in recent days that he has been a consistent champion of the First Amendment and said he was helping protect free speech by weighing in on local TV programming decisions that no longer serve the public interest.
As part of those efforts, Mr. Carr has reopened complaints that accuse ABC, NBC and CBS of biased programming during the 2024 election — including investigating “Saturday Night Live” for a pre-election episode in which then-Vice President Kamala Harris was a guest. He is investigating PBS and NPR over accusations that the public news organizations violated rules that prevented them from airing commercials. He has also warned that he can block media mergers that may harm local stations’ independence.
Now, Mr. Carr is leveraging the agency’s power to withhold local TV stations’ licenses if they do not serve the public interest by airing biased coverage.
When Mr. Carr last week criticized Mr. Kimmel, he suggested the agency could look into pulling local stations’ licenses for broadcasting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Two major local TV station groups, Nexstar and Sinclair, later said they would not air the show. While Mr. Kimmel’s show returned on Tuesday, both station groups decided against broadcasting it. Mr. Carr praised their decision.
“Notably, this is the first time recently that any local TV stations have pushed back on a national programmer like Disney,” he posted on Tuesday on X. “And that is a good thing because we want empowered local TV stations.”
Mr. Carr’s actions have raised alarms from many lawmakers on the left as well as some on the right, including Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, for stepping on First Amendment rights, while winning praise from President Trump, who has been ramping up efforts to punish his enemies and critics.
“This is a level of censorship we haven’t seen in my lifetime,” said Chris Lewis, the president of the left-leaning public interest group Public Knowledge.
Mr. Carr did not respond to a request for comment. An F.C.C. spokesman declined to comment, pointing to Mr. Carr’s recent interviews.
Red
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Looking for measured and sane takes?
metro.co.uk
A Fox News host has called for the United Nations to be attacked after an elevator mishap with Donald Trump.
Jesse Watters went on primetime television and suggested the broken elevator could be ‘sabotage’, adding ‘Daddy’s not happy.’
He cited a report in the Times which said: ‘To mark Trump’s arrival, UN Staff members joked they may turn off the escalators and elevators… so he has to walk up the stairs.’
‘This is an insurrection,’ Watters said on prime time television.
‘What we need to do is either leave the UN,’ he said, before turning and looking directly into the camera. ‘Or we need to bomb it. It is in New York, though. There might be some fallout.’
The extreme response came after Trump appeared to joke about the situation in his UN speech, saying: ‘These are the two things I got from the United Nations – a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
But the White House has since demanded an investigation into the broken elevators, as Watters claimed they could have ‘hurt the most beautiful First Lady in American history’.
A person familiar with the situation later told The Daily Beast that the elevator mishap occurred because someone accidentally clicked the emergency stop.
It’s the latest instance of controversial statements made on the popular news network. Last week, a Fox News host said mentally ill homeless people should be ‘killed’.
Fox News broadcaster suggests UN should be 'bombed' over Trump escalator
'What we need to do is either leave the UN,' he said, before turning and looking directly into the camera. 'Or we need to bomb it.'
metro.co.uk
A Fox News host has called for the United Nations to be attacked after an elevator mishap with Donald Trump.
Jesse Watters went on primetime television and suggested the broken elevator could be ‘sabotage’, adding ‘Daddy’s not happy.’
He cited a report in the Times which said: ‘To mark Trump’s arrival, UN Staff members joked they may turn off the escalators and elevators… so he has to walk up the stairs.’
‘This is an insurrection,’ Watters said on prime time television.
‘What we need to do is either leave the UN,’ he said, before turning and looking directly into the camera. ‘Or we need to bomb it. It is in New York, though. There might be some fallout.’
The extreme response came after Trump appeared to joke about the situation in his UN speech, saying: ‘These are the two things I got from the United Nations – a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
But the White House has since demanded an investigation into the broken elevators, as Watters claimed they could have ‘hurt the most beautiful First Lady in American history’.
A person familiar with the situation later told The Daily Beast that the elevator mishap occurred because someone accidentally clicked the emergency stop.
It’s the latest instance of controversial statements made on the popular news network. Last week, a Fox News host said mentally ill homeless people should be ‘killed’.