ABC, CBS, NBC: Join CNN in censoring Trump Ad

[MindWars]

ABC, CBS, NBC join CNN in censoring Trump ad
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The Donald Trump campaign Friday announced that ABC, CBS and NBC has joined CNN in a campaign to censor its 100-day ad, “setting a chilling precedent against free speech rights.”

Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump and daughter-in-law of President Trump, a consultant for the campaign Donald J. Trump for President Inc., said: “Apparently, the mainstream media are champions of the First Amendment only when it serves their own political views. Faced with an ad that doesn’t fit their biased narrative, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC have now all chosen to block our ad. This is an unprecedented act of censorship in America that should concern every freedom-loving citizen.”




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[theHawk]

What a bunch of thin-skinned sissies.

The funny thing is them banning it will just make it a YouTube hit and Trump doesn't have to pay those communist c-nts a damned thing.

Every time these idiots try to undermine the Don, it ends up backfiring.

 

[Penelope]

The ad is full of mistruths.

 

[Gracie]

The media hasn't gotten the drift yet that they are in the same sinking whiney ship named Hillary. Nobody cares what they say or do.

 

[S.J.]

Little by little the American people are seeing that the msm is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the anti-American left.

 

[usmbguest5318]

I have news for you: professionals of all sorts refuse the business of all sorts of potential buyers.

• Contractors refuse to bid on certain engagements.
• Consultants decline to take on engagements from certain potential or existing clients.
• Doctors close their practice to additional patients.
• Lawyers refuse to represent certain individuals or take on certain cases

Trump's favorite news network is reported to be Fox. Have they aired the ad? Did Trump try to place the ad on Fox's network?


Accepting paid political advertising is not the same thing as “a duty to report to the public the facts.” In fact, researching, checking and reporting on facts is the reason the advertisement was rejected by every major network. Moreover, Trump doesn’t seem to have an understanding of broadcast regulations and what qualifies as censorship. The Washington Post touched on this noting:

In this case, the free-speech argument is not a winning one. TV stations — even over-the-air broadcasters, which are subject to tighter regulation by the Federal Communications Commission than their cable counterparts — do not have to allow the president to buy airtime for his ad.​

Here is the relevant FCC rule:

No station licensee is required to permit the use of its facilities by any legally qualified candidate for public office, but if any licensee shall permit any such candidate to use its facilities, it shall afford equal opportunities to all other candidates for that office to use such facilities. Such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast by any such candidate.​

Remember: We’re talking about candidates for president in 2020. Trump doesn’t have opponents yet -- not any serious ones, anyway, and certainly none buying ad time. If, for example, Martin O’Malley were already in the race and if ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates had been airing his commercials, those stations would have no choice but to show Trump’s, too. And they would have “no power of censorship.” But the networks, which are not licensed by the FCC, do not have to show Trump’s ad, and their affiliates can turn down Trump, so long as they have not said yes to any other 2020 presidential candidate.​

Trump chose willfully to declare his 2020 candidacy. Now, he doesn't like one of the consequences of having done so and he's being a crybaby about it.

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As an aside, for it's, at best, tangentially related to the matter of Trump's ad not being accepted:
Believe it or not, Donald Trump's is not the first advertisement revenue that media outlets have rejected. It won't won't be the last.

• Two D.C. stations refuse to run ads against Redskins name
  
• Congressional Record, V. 149, PT. 9, May 14, 2003 to May 21, 2003

 

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[my2¢]

If you didn't think the producers of the ad didn't plan on its being censored then you must have just fell off the turnip truck. They're simply avoiding paying for the ad's placement by getting fake news media sources to cover its banning as if it wasn't intentional.