Trump threatens to pull licenses of networks who are “against him.”

[Zincwarrior]

Trump being Trump. He knows he can't do that.

Hell he can't. ABC sure thought he could.

 

[Missourian]

So people like Kirk can lie continually, but a comedian cannot make political comedy. You MAGAts are really getting deep into fascism.

Except Kirk didn't lie.

And Kimmel wasn't "making comedy". There was no joke. He stated a lie as a fact with the intention of misleading the public.

The very reason you believe he did is because you believe the same lying narratives that Kimmel pushed.

Which is exactly why those lies are so dangerous.

Unfortunately, due to your seeking confirmation bias, you search these lies out and repeat them ad nauseum.

Calling out Kimmel's lies publicly only helps people who are capable of recognizing when they are being gaslighted and manipulated.

 

[Missourian]

Hell he can't. ABC sure thought he could.

Because ABC understands they cannot allow their broadcasts to intentionally distort the news or to intentionally mislead the country.

Which Kimmel intentionally did, then flatly refused to correct.

 

[Missourian]

but a comedian cannot make political comedy.

A false statement. Not a joke.

 

[TimFitz]

I don’t know why this discussion is happening.

The FCC does not license networks, only broadcast affiliates.

Trump’s pompous threats are meaningless.

All they do is trigger people who are too committed to Trumpism to see through the empty threat.

 

[TimFitz]

A false statement. Not a joke.

So what? (, Kimmel is a comedian, not a journalist),

If your complaint is that he said something false, then what is your excuseforFox, which hs admitted in court documents that it regularly and deliberately lies to its audience?

 

[JLW]

ABC agreed to release Kimmel just as the Bandleader in the Godfather agreed to release Johnnie Fontaine from his contract.



It makes sense that a wannabe dictator acts like a mob boss.

 

[TimFitz]

Because ABC understands they cannot allow their broadcasts to intentionally distort the news or to intentionally mislead the country.

Which Kimmel intentionally did, then flatly refused to correct.

Kimmel is not a journalist or a news presenter.

You righties seem to have trouble distinguishing between news and entertainment.

Which is understandable considering the extremely lowbrow, gossipy nature of right wing tabloid media.

 

[Missourian]

So what? (, Kimmel is a comedian, not a journalist),

If your complaint is that he said something false, then what is your excuseforFox, which hs admitted in court documents that it regularly and deliberately lies to its audience?

Is Fox News regulated by the FCC?

No. They are not.

The exchange that allows ABC to temporarily own the block of frequencies that they license by contract from the US Government that directly affect Kimmel's lies are:

1) that they operate in the public interest.

2) that they don't intentionally perpetrate hoaxes especially when it regards crimes and catastrophes.

3) that they do not intentional distort the news.

These are the regulations that the broadcasters freely and voluntarily agree to abide by in exchange for the contractual use of broadcast airwaves.

Fox News doesn't have a licence with the government to use over the air broadcast frequencies. They broadcast over private cable systems and satellite. Therefore, there is no voluntary regulations of their speech. That is why cable broadcasts nude scenes and cuss words and broadcast television does not, though both are express rights to speech and expression granted by the first amendment.

The regulation against intentional hoaxing and distorting the news is also voluntary, a stipulation of receiving a license to broadcast over the air.

A similar example of voluntary, contractual regulation of rights is signing a contractual obligation to the US Military, colloquially known as "enlisting".

In exchange for the education, retirement, healthcare, training, experience and honor of service in the military, my enlistment contract also restricted certain rights, such as the right to free speech and the right to freedom of movement. This is a totally voluntary contractual regulation of personal rights... but violation of these regulations may land a service member in federal prison.

It is the same type of voluntary regulation that ABC, NBC and CBS have entered with the US Government and the FCC.

They can freely end these regulations by ending their license agreement for over-the-air broadcast with the Government of the United States and relinquish that block of airwaves to another company.

CNN, MSWhoGivesAFuck, and Fox News have not.

That is the difference. And if you had done 30 seconds of research instead of regurgitating up whatever talking point was vomited into your ear by the same dipshits who told your Trump colluded with Russia, cloth masks protected against COVID, Biden was sharp as a tack and everyone that disagreed with you politically was a fascist, I wouldn't have to be taking my time to school you once again.

 

[knuckles]

And people said that Hitler never could totally take over Germany.

No. They embraced Hitler.

 

[knuckles]

Hell he can't. ABC sure thought he could.

The advertisers.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The advertisers.

No the FCC.. The head of the FCC. Threatened them ON AIR.

 

[knuckles]

No the FCC.. The head of the FCC. Threatened them ON AIR.

Bottom line. Follow the money.

 

[TimFitz]

Is Fox News regulated by the FCC?

No. They are not.

The exchange that allows ABC to temporarily own the block of frequencies that they license by contract from the US Government that directly affect Kimmel's lies are:

1) that they operate in the public interest.

2) that they don't intentionally perpetrate hoaxes especially when it regards crimes and catastrophes.

3) that they do not intentional distort the news.

These are the regulations that the broadcasters freely and voluntarily agree to abide by in exchange for the contractual use of broadcast airwaves.

Fox News doesn't have a licence with the government to use over the air broadcast frequencies. They broadcast over private cable systems and satellite. Therefore, there is no voluntary regulations of their speech. That is why cable broadcasts nude scenes and cuss words and broadcast television does not, though both are express rights to speech and expression granted by the first amendment.

The regulation against intentional hoaxing and distorting the news is also voluntary, a stipulation of receiving a license to broadcast over the air.

A similar example of voluntary, contractual regulation of rights is signing a contractual obligation to the US Military, colloquially known as "enlisting".

In exchange for the education, retirement, healthcare, training, experience and honor of service in the military, my enlistment contract also restricted certain rights, such as the right to free speech and the right to freedom of movement. This is a totally voluntary contractual regulation of personal rights... but violation of these regulations may land a service member in federal prison.

It is the same type of voluntary regulation that ABC, NBC and CBS have entered with the US Government and the FCC.

They can freely end these regulations by ending their license agreement for over-the-air broadcast with the Government of the United States and relinquish that block of airwaves to another company.

CNN, MSWhoGivesAFuck, and Fox News have not.

That is the difference. And if you had done 30 seconds of research instead of regurgitating up whatever talking point was vomited into your ear by the same dipshits who told your Trump colluded with Russia, cloth masks protected against COVID, Biden was sharp as a tack and everyone that disagreed with you politically was a fascist, I wouldn't have to be taking my time to school you once again.

You made all of that up.

So, you claim (correctly) that Fox is not licensed by the FCC.

That appears to be your excuse for their shady and frequent lies. Ones which folks like you suck up like catnip.

ABC isn’t licensed either. Dispite your lengthly, and altogether false claims.

 

[Missourian]

You made all of that up.

So, you claim (correctly) that Fox is not licensed by the FCC.

That appears to be your excuse for their shady and frequent lies. Ones which folks like you suck up like catnip.

ABC isn’t licensed either. Dispite your lengthly, and altogether false claims.

All ABC Stations and affiliate stations are licensed and regulated by the FCC... As is every other station that broadcasts over public airwaves.