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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 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.