Summary
The FCC has demanded CBS provide the full, unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, following a complaint and a lawsuit by Donald Trump.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by Trump, has reversed past media-related dismissals and launched new investigations into broadcasters.
CBS is also in settlement talks with Trump amid concerns over a pending Paramount-Skydance merger.
Critics argue the FCC’s actions constitute government retaliation against the press, raising concerns over First Amendment protections and media independence.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
This is not normal. This is illegal. This is facism.
Well . . . yeah.
Just like we said for the last year.
See, though, the Democrats ran an unlikable candidate. So. You can understand why this lurching hellscape was so necessary.
And black people’s mail in ballots were rejected at a rate NINE TIMES higher than white people’s. There are other little things like this.
Voter suppression gave the Midwest states to Trump. We need to make sure everyone knows it.
They learned their lesson in Ohio. Enough election fuckery and you can even just decide to ignore anti Gerrymandering constitutional amendments. And as an added perk your opponents leave over it
Agreed. Let’s see those links, or citations, or whatever you got. Hopefully all in one place, like a Wikipedia article or something.
Yes, those are good links, but I thought there might be something like actual numbers of voters whose vote was thrown out for false reasons or something like that.
I gotta track down the last article I read. I’ll post it when I find it later.
The Democrats needed to learn a lesson!
And if we’re lucky, we’ll still get to have elections in a couple years.
I would love to live in a world where CBS tells them to go fuck themselves, and airs an hourlong special on the history of free speech protections in the United States and the meaning of the term “chilling effect.”
It seems like kind of the bare minimum. If they as an American news organization are not at least willing to do that, they should replace that proud-of-itself ticking clock intro with a little clip of some of the news reports from Starship Troopers.
CBS is also in settlement talks with Trump amid concerns over a pending Paramount-Skydance merger.
that is all you need to know about this situation to conclude what will happen.
CBS should tell Brendan Carr to go fuck himself
The government can demand unpublished journalism materials, and CBS has the right to tell them to fuck off, which they would if they have any integrity left.
Sure. And then the government revokes your broadcast license.
And then fines you.
And then breaks your assets up.
Fun times.
This should really be the story. “CBS capitulated to a dictator wanna be.”
Getting less “wannabe” and more “actual” every day
I really hope that orange turds lifestyle soon catches up to him
If the interview was broadcast, there must be video recordings, so what is the big deal about unedited transcripts? They can watch the video and see what she said.
Do they mean they want stuff she said that didn’t go on the air? That would be invasive.
Yes - they want the unaired footage and transcript.
Hmm. Does the FCC actually have the authority to do that?
I mean, I don’t know the details of the thing here, but their authority really extends just over what goes out over the air. I don’t think that they have any special authority over the inner workings of companies, just because they happen to be in the news business.
the president doesn’t give a fuck. the fcc is just going to be the minitru going forward
They can ask for it, but that doesn’t mean that CBS has to do it, and if they want to take it to the courts, then they’re going to need to have a legal argument.
It doesn’t matter if they have a legal argument. They want to scare the execs at
CBSParamount so thatCBSParamount capitulates and gives in, just like ABC did.And guess what?
Some people really need to go study the rise of the Third Reich. They will be feeling like they have deja vu.
You best start believing in thick chapters in the history book. You’re in one.
Good reading: “Maus” by Art Spiegelman, “Night” by Elie Wiesel.
