▲ | lobsterthief 6 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
He didn’t say anything violent. Have you watched the monologue? Even if he did (which he didn’t), I don’t see Fox shutting down anything when one of their presenters recently stated, on air, that we should euthanize our homeless population. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | InitialLastName 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To be clear (not that I agree with this situation): Fox News (where that presenter works) is a cable network, beholden to the cable providers but not a broadcaster. The FCC has relatively little leverage to regulate it, because it does not rely on broadcast licenses. ABC is a broadcast network. It relies on a network of affiliates (largely owned by a few big companies) who selectively broadcast its programming both over the airwaves and to cable providers. Those affiliates have individual licenses for their radio broadcasting bandwidth which the FCC does have leverage over (and whose content the FCC has a long history of regulating, but not usually directly over politics, e.g. public interest requirements, profanity, and obscenity laws). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | nerdponx 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To be fair I don't see what the FCC has to do with it. This is classic Manufacturing Consent behavior. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | maxlin 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Of course I watched it, many times. I didn't say he said anything directly violent, but he spread hateful disinformation about someone's death, entirely against FBI's findings and common sense, during a time of the highest temperatures in a while. Just to try to win the attention of people that'd rather not look in the mirror. This is exactly the kind of disingenuous, dehumanizing behavior that radicalizes people like Tyler. And saying that right now would be like if Reagan got in to a spat about something personal during the cold war. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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