Trump Wants CNN, NBC Off Air for Spurning His Iowa Victory Speech
thedailybeast.com
“ Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at a pair of cable networks not named Fox News for their decision not to air all of his Iowa caucuses victory speech as it happened, suggesting that what they did was so heinous that they should “have their licenses, or whatever they have, taken away.”
Dictators gonna dictate.
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CNN and NBC will both breathlessly cover the Trumpification of America—their anchors and field reporters squealing about how exciting it all is—right up until the moment when a Trump FCC that does not give one shit about the law, starts shutting down their facilities. Only then, when its way too late and they’ve lost their platform, will they realize that fascist takeovers aren’t a fucking game to be covered like celebrity dating drama.
CNN is literally following their own 2016 election playbook giving him non-stop coverage and downplaying any risk he poses to the constitution and democracy.
Fuck CNN.
CNN was bought out by a right wing billionaire.
They were barely centrist beforehand, and now they're sliding subtly further and further right-wing in their reporting.
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/10/objective-cnn-rightwing-week-in-patriarchy
One of those pieces of shit was literally quoted saying fox fucking news was a good model to follow... That they have "real journalism" surrounded by opinion shows...
Yeah guy, and if you paid any attention at all you'd know that Fox viewers HATED the real journalists like Shepard Smith because he had to actually read news and not orders handed down as to what to say...
CNN is just going to be Fox lite soon enough... Just what we needed. Not one less propaganda outlet, but one more terrible one...
I don’t think he’d truly shut them down. He loves feeding the media machine regardless of their opinions.
Why do people doubt that he'll do as he says?
If he had his way, there would only be one channel and he would be on it most of the time.
Just like how television is in North Korea!
Well because he’s a liar and thrives on controversy and the spotlight. Just my hot take.
I won’t completely discount your theory though either. Nothing would be shocking these days, coming from him.