FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal.

Freedom of speech now no longer applies to the press? Thomas Paine’s writins of Common Sense might beg tp differ.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
    92·
    17 hours ago

    OTA broadcasters never had freedom of speech, and broadcasters aren’t the press. That’s the price the government levied on them for free use of broadcast spectrum. That’s why when any of the jumped up psychopaths in the Oval Office wanted to propagandize to the nation they were allowed to use the networks to do so. Its always been creepy and weird and almost unique in the west.

    • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      OTA broadcasters never had freedom of speech, and broadcasters aren’t the press.

      Never? Edward R. Murrow?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      17 hours ago

      broadcasters aren’t the press

      :-/

      “You can say whatever you please, but we reserve the right to make sure nobody can hear you”

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      It comes back to Clinton/biden’s 30 year old telecoms act again…

      Back in the day they couldn’t try this, because it was a huge number of owners.

      Now it’s a handful of giant corporations owned by political allies, which makes applying pressure easy.

      Any opposition from broadcasters is controlled, but eventually the government will ask for more than corps want to give, and they won’t have an option.