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It's a famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 2).
In a post on X, Carr also warned that broadcasters will lose their licenses if they don’t “operate in the public interest.”
“Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote in the post, which attached Trump’s statement on Truth Social earlier Saturday.
“It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news,” Carr added.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that five refueling tankers were struck during an Iranian missile strike on the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.
In the Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump called that an “intentionally misleading headline,” citing the Journal, The New York Times and what he called other “Lowlife” papers. The president also said four of the five Air Force refueling planes hit in the Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia sustained “virtually no damage, and are already back in service.”
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Being the most dishonest, incompetent, pathologically lying prez in US history (no other comes close) has made it necessary for Don to level all sorts of accusations on the media. The institution that reports on his dishonesty, incompetence, and pathological lying. What better way to deflect from despicable behavior than to accuse those reporting on it of the same?
trump toady Brendan Carr says the media reports "fake news," does not act "in the public's interest," and that “it is very important to bring trust back into media." So important that he is once again making thinly veiled threats about broadcast license renewals if they don't report the news the way trump would approve of. In so doing avoiding the fact that trump should be held to the same standards.
You can only repeat something for so long before it loses its power to elicit a response. Knowing that, let me none the less say what Carr is doing comes straight from the authoritarian playbook. And while he does not where the uniform of a Nazi, nor is his tone overly aggressive, it isn't any less menacing. He wants the media to come to heel. To ask itself whether reporting something that puts the regime in an unfavorable light jeopardizes its ability to stay in business. It's an afront to the 1st A. The right Repubs pretend to care so much about.
FCC chair slams broadcasters after Trump disputes reports on Iran-damaged U.S. tankers
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Saturday blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes “fake news.”In a post on X, Carr also warned that broadcasters will lose their licenses if they don’t “operate in the public interest.”
“Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote in the post, which attached Trump’s statement on Truth Social earlier Saturday.
“It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news,” Carr added.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that five refueling tankers were struck during an Iranian missile strike on the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.
In the Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump called that an “intentionally misleading headline,” citing the Journal, The New York Times and what he called other “Lowlife” papers. The president also said four of the five Air Force refueling planes hit in the Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia sustained “virtually no damage, and are already back in service.”
FCC chair slams broadcasters after Trump disputes reports on Iran-damaged U.S. tankers
FCC Chair Brendan Carr blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."
www.cnbc.com
Being the most dishonest, incompetent, pathologically lying prez in US history (no other comes close) has made it necessary for Don to level all sorts of accusations on the media. The institution that reports on his dishonesty, incompetence, and pathological lying. What better way to deflect from despicable behavior than to accuse those reporting on it of the same?
trump toady Brendan Carr says the media reports "fake news," does not act "in the public's interest," and that “it is very important to bring trust back into media." So important that he is once again making thinly veiled threats about broadcast license renewals if they don't report the news the way trump would approve of. In so doing avoiding the fact that trump should be held to the same standards.
You can only repeat something for so long before it loses its power to elicit a response. Knowing that, let me none the less say what Carr is doing comes straight from the authoritarian playbook. And while he does not where the uniform of a Nazi, nor is his tone overly aggressive, it isn't any less menacing. He wants the media to come to heel. To ask itself whether reporting something that puts the regime in an unfavorable light jeopardizes its ability to stay in business. It's an afront to the 1st A. The right Repubs pretend to care so much about.
