If USA loses college football or NFL broadcasts, there will be major riots. I'm not joking. NFL just hit new highs for broadcast ratings at 20.7 million. I can't imagine how the USA would otherwise process losing out on broadcast sports overnight. Networks can call his bluff instantly with sports in their pockets. The riots could even be sponsored by DraftKings.
Curious what HN makes of this statement from Trump:
> He added: “When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — that license, they’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”
On the one hand, it sounds like a massive violation of civil liberties to revoke licenses based on journalistic criticism. On the other hand, if there is one-sided coverage, when does that cross the line into something resembling campaign financing, where the rules are different? And leaving out licensed situations like TV, what about online journalism. Is there some strict test that separates journalism from election spending?
While I don't think they actually do that, if they did it would be legal. Before 1987, when Republicans successfully got the fairness doctrine revoked, it wouldn't have been.
Thank you for the opportunity to reply. With all due respect and civility, it sounds like Trump is really thin skinned, and does not remember last year, when we saw nothing but news media hammering on Biden's Age Problem. That's an example falsifying his premise, and therefore by the laws of logic, falsifying his conclusion.
I believe Washington Post did do 1 (one) Trump's Age Problem, as did the Philadelphia Inquirer. I acknowledge the coverage wasn't precisely 100% anti-Biden.
Now that we know Trump started with false premises, we have to ask why? We also have an obligation to point out the falsehoods politely.
You're certainly correct, thank you for noting this. Yes, Trump can hammer away, although Biden ultimately withdrew from the race, and politics in general, so this seems uncivil and unnecessary.
My point was that news media as a whole was thorough about covering Biden's Age Problem, and almost completely ignored similar problems in Trump's appearance and behavior, thus falsifying Trump's premise that news media only denigrates Trump. Some have gone so far as to say that a lot of mass media was very charitable towards Trump during his 2024 campaign, and very hard on Biden.
If USA loses college football or NFL broadcasts, there will be major riots. I'm not joking. NFL just hit new highs for broadcast ratings at 20.7 million. I can't imagine how the USA would otherwise process losing out on broadcast sports overnight. Networks can call his bluff instantly with sports in their pockets. The riots could even be sponsored by DraftKings.
This is like that meme, where you explain politics to Americans starting with "Imagine a burger", except "Imagine no football."
Which is why these events have been performing political rituals like memorials to the slain Kirk.
Discussion (91 points, 3 hours ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294199
Related Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses–the 1A might stop him (9 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451557
Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses (2017) https://web.archive.org/web/20171019082700/http://www.washin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507866)
The first, most voted one, was flagged maybe because the linked news piece didn't say much
Let's see him go after Youtube and Meta for allowing criticism of him and Kirk on their platforms.
What Constitution?
Curious what HN makes of this statement from Trump:
> He added: “When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — that license, they’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”
On the one hand, it sounds like a massive violation of civil liberties to revoke licenses based on journalistic criticism. On the other hand, if there is one-sided coverage, when does that cross the line into something resembling campaign financing, where the rules are different? And leaving out licensed situations like TV, what about online journalism. Is there some strict test that separates journalism from election spending?
> Is there some strict test that separates journalism from election spending?
Truth? You seem to act like the only consequences of fraud, sexual assault and associating with pedophiles is the detriment to one's identity.
Have you considered that there are victims to crimes like fraud, rape and pedophilia? That, perhaps, the perpetrators aren't victims in this scenario?
> they’re not allowed to do that.
While I don't think they actually do that, if they did it would be legal. Before 1987, when Republicans successfully got the fairness doctrine revoked, it wouldn't have been.
Fox "News"?
Thank you for the opportunity to reply. With all due respect and civility, it sounds like Trump is really thin skinned, and does not remember last year, when we saw nothing but news media hammering on Biden's Age Problem. That's an example falsifying his premise, and therefore by the laws of logic, falsifying his conclusion.
I believe Washington Post did do 1 (one) Trump's Age Problem, as did the Philadelphia Inquirer. I acknowledge the coverage wasn't precisely 100% anti-Biden.
Now that we know Trump started with false premises, we have to ask why? We also have an obligation to point out the falsehoods politely.
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Regrettably, I was unclear.
You're certainly correct, thank you for noting this. Yes, Trump can hammer away, although Biden ultimately withdrew from the race, and politics in general, so this seems uncivil and unnecessary.
My point was that news media as a whole was thorough about covering Biden's Age Problem, and almost completely ignored similar problems in Trump's appearance and behavior, thus falsifying Trump's premise that news media only denigrates Trump. Some have gone so far as to say that a lot of mass media was very charitable towards Trump during his 2024 campaign, and very hard on Biden.
Wtf. You ever watch Fox or Newsmax?
Maybe the facts support on side more than the other, anyway.