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Trump Wants To Challenge Licenses

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TheBigA said:
Once again the president brings up looking at NBC's license:

@realDonaldTrump

More NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct. I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?

Only one problem: Networks aren't licensed. So there isn't an NBC license to look at.

However, just a few days ago, the Justice Department says it is reviewing the Comcast merger with NBC Universal.
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Does President Trump know that his supporters such as Sinclair Broadcasting have affiliation contracts with NBC in Rhode Island, Reno and Las Vegas?? Whose License are we looking at. Or is this some sort of retaliation from the Lester Holt Rants Trump has made. Something tells me that there's more to this story besides Trump not liking the story over Weinstein on NBC/MSNBC or the NBC O&O's.
 
RadioPatrol said:
And now this is at play here a dispute between Farrow and NBC News Leadership over the story.
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At some point, I expect NBC will release the original story. The facts that we know are that when the story first came out, Weinstein threatened a huge lawsuit, and even some witnesses threatened cease & desist orders. It wasn't until a few previously unnamed witnesses spoke out that the story was taken seriously.
 
RadioPatrol said:
This has to be the reason why the President Seems to go after NBC at certain intervals. Over this??
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He goes after everyone. That's what he does. If you get on his radar, he'll go after you.

However, bringing up "me too" is not a good subject for him. The next story Ronan Farrow did (after Weinstein) was about Trump.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...rump-affair-with-former-playboy-playmate.html

And Farrow did another story just a few weeks ago about Trump & the National Inquirer.

https://www.thewrap.com/former-trump-doorman-dino-sajudin-hush-money-deal-love-child/
 
TheBigA said:
He goes after everyone. That's what he does. If you get on his radar, he'll go after you.

However, bringing up "me too" is not a good subject for him. The next story Ronan Farrow did (after Weinstein) was about Trump.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...rump-affair-with-former-playboy-playmate.html

And Farrow did another story just a few weeks ago about Trump & the National Inquirer.

https://www.thewrap.com/former-trump-doorman-dino-sajudin-hush-money-deal-love-child/
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I knew the black kettle effect was at play though given the story you mentioned today.
 
TheBigA said:
If the purpose of his tweet was to encourage more investigations of unethical conduct, he might get his wish.
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If that was the case but apparently not Here is an update now you have a whistleblower who has just written an op ed to the NY times but is not being named at this time.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/nyt-trump-resistance-op-ed/index.html

And now the president is after the NY Times in retaliation over the unnamed whistle blower who just written an editorial for the outlet.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

Wait for the tweet that says "Challenge the NY Times License" in 3...2...1... Note the FCC does not regulate Newspapers companies like the NY Times, McClatchy's Sacramento Bee,Patch, Washington Post, Tronc, or the L.A. Times. But I can see the President saying that though about going after the NY Times Licence even though it does not exist.
 
TheBigA said:
If the purpose of his tweet was to encourage more investigations of unethical conduct, he might get his wish.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d9390f0a1617

Now the President is After the NY Times today in retaliation over an editorial by a whistle blower. None of the president's tweets are going to encourage "investigations of questionable conduct" What did you expect. All the White House is going to do is tweet out "NY Times is fake news" or "Lets go after NY Times License". As far as I know Newspapers and Website/App news outlets do not have licenses from the FCC.

Lets just Say Ajit Pai has a crazier job to deal with than previously thought given the way things are going.
 
TheBigA said:
Maybe...on another board, we're discussing the fact that some are now saying regulations are needed for the internet and social media.

This from the same party that eliminated net neutrality, and shut down any possible internet regulations at the FCC. But now that they don't like what's going on, they want to see what kinds of new rules they can impose. There will be Cap Hill hearings on the subject next week.
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The problem with the internet is now that it is beginning to seriously compete with TV, Radio, and print media as a means of mass communication, its importance is so great to the concept of free speech that there are bound to be some Supreme Court cases over its use some time within the next decade.
 
boombox4 said:
its importance is so great to the concept of free speech that there are bound to be some Supreme Court cases over its use some time within the next decade.
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It's the same problem that gets discussed on this board all the time. At what point does free speech exceed the bounds of legality? At what point is your free speech threatening or endangering someone else, or opening the owners of a particular site to a lawsuit? There's already a lot of legal precedent on the books. That's why all sites, including YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have terms of service, and why all users are required to agree to them before they can use those sites. You defy the TOS, and they can ban you. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It has to do with the right of a private business to protect itself from a lawsuit. If you don't like the TOS, you can go someplace else, or start your own website. There is recourse.
 
https://thehill.com/policy/technolo...-to-comcast-over-alleged-antitrust-violations

And Now the president goes after Comcast the Owners of NBC over AntiTrust allegations.

President Trump on Monday lashed out at Comcast after a group representing small cable providers asked the Department of Justice to investigate the company over antitrust concerns.

"American Cable Association has big problems with Comcast. They say that Comcast routinely violates Antitrust Laws," Trump said in a tweet, adding that the group believes Comcast's merger with NBC poses greater anticompetitive concerns than the recent AT&T-Time Warner merger.

The ACA wrote to the Justice Department last week arguing that vertical mergers where pay-TV providers like Comcast and AT&T combine with companies that offer programming give the merged firms the "incentive and ability to disadvantage rival distributors by raising the prices it charges these rivals for programming."

"ACA expects – and there is every reason for DOJ to expect -- Comcast-NBCU to act on its natural incentives and use its capabilities to harm rivals, unless the government somehow, either through structural or behavioral remedies, deals with them," the group wrote.
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TheBigA said:
The irony being that his TV show had been on Comcast's NBC network for 12 years.
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Like Every other post about the President going after the NBC O&O's by making threats to yank KNBC, KNTV, WBTS, WMAQ, KNSD, WRC and WNBC licenses through the FCC at one point but like every other threat we say nothing is going to happen and some will say that the President is retaliating against his critics the failed Sinclair/Tribune Merger.

Come on the President is just picking and choosing which mergers he likes and which mergers he hates.

But ever since the failed Sinclair/Tribune deal theres been rumors of Tribune in talks with Byron Allen for a deal and Sinclair attempting to get the Cox Stations.
 
At the end of the day the DOJ needs to have proof that the company is hurting competition. In the AT&T case, the judge found the government hadn't proved its case. Now it's going to appeal. But it takes proof, not just opinion.

The fact is that Comcast is now competing against a lot more companies now. I know I'm considering dropping Comcast and using Sling.
 
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/14/fox-news-to-file-amicus-brief-on-cnn-case-990070

Now Fox News is speaking on the CNN issue.

Fox News said Wednesday it would back CNN in its lawsuit to restore reporter Jim Acosta's press credentials after the White House revoked them last week — the latest move by President Donald Trump's favorite news organization to distance itself from him in recent weeks.

"Secret Service passes for White House journalists should never be weaponized," Fox News President Jay Wallace said in a statement. "While we don't condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the President and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people."


The decision aligned a news network that Trump frequently quotes with one he has long criticized. Acosta's access was revoked after he argued with Trump during a press conference and briefly refused to give up the microphone when a White House aide tried to pull it from his hand. CNN on Tuesday filed a lawsuit claiming that the White House and Trump's actions were unconstitutional.

Fox News also signed onto a statement released by a group of news outlets, including POLITICO, saying that the organizations "support the fundamental constitutional right to question this President, or any President" and will file "friend-of-the-court briefs to support CNN’s and Jim Acosta’s lawsuit."

The outlet has often been exempt from Trump's harsh rhetoric towards the media, which he often calls "fake news." The president has called into "Fox and Friends" several times, granting them at times nearly 40-minute interviews. The coziness between the president and the network was also underscored this summer when Trump hired former Fox News executive Bill Shine to lead his communications team. And Trump has given exclusive interviews to Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, who joined him on stage at a rally leading up to the midterm elections.
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Well its too persistent though.
 
Trump Wants to Challenge Licenses

RadioPatrol said:
Does President Trump know that his supporters such as Sinclair Broadcasting have affiliation contracts with NBC in Rhode Island, Reno and Las Vegas?? Whose License are we looking at. Or is this some sort of retaliation from the Lester Holt Rants Trump has made. Something tells me that there's more to this story besides Trump not liking the story over Weinstein on NBC/MSNBC or the NBC O&O's.
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Also in eastern Ohio, WTOV in Steubenville. BTW, outgoing (in more than one way) Ohio Governor John Kasich is allegedly challenging Trump in 2020.
 
Not just Trump, but it's amazing how many people think these 2 things: Networks (and even cable networks) have FCC licenses that can be revoked at will by the government (I saw someone on Twitter claim that Fox News is in violation of their FCC license because they're licensed as "entertainment"), and that the Fairness Doctrine was a giant club the government wielded to make sure that 6 minutes and 37 seconds of pro-Republican Party commentary was balanced by exactly 6 minutes and 37 seconds of pro-Democratic Party commentary (and that it would have applied to cable and internet).
 
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