Due to the sponsors pulling out alongside Carrs comment it’s difficult to understand if the sponsors were acting on their own or by applied FCC pressure. I believe it was the implied threat from the FCC.
Definitely something that Cruz appropriately pointed out can be used against conservatives in the future. I don’t like it at all.
Not sponsors. Affiliate stations who have a vested/financial interest in sucking up to the FCC chair and doing precisely what he commands them to do, regardless of who delivers the message.
Why, does your mom watches it?
Because you are misrepresenting what Kimmel said, and downplaying the effect of Carr's comments on companies with a financial interest in currying his favour.
I’m downplaying it? By saying that the FCC officially took no action and Carr was wrongly leveraging his bully pulpit in a disgusting way?
A vague threat would be ""The FCC should hold broadcasters accountable if they don’t serve the public interest"
It wasn't alongside, it was AFTER Carr's comments.
By qualifying it with "officially". They very clearly "took action".
Yes you are downplaying it by continuing to suggest it wasn’t “official” action. The fcc chair made an explicit threat to a company who took action. On behalf of this administration.
Once again, what action did they take? I’ll give you another chance since you essentially had a self own by posting a quote from a conservative non-profit as your proof.
What was the official explicit threat on behalf of the administration? “Additional work ahead for the FCC”?
"The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.*
Why did you post a conservative non-profit presidents post as evidence then?
Cool — glad we confirmed there were no official actions taken."The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.*
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies* can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
And speaking on Fox Wednesday night, Carr suggested broadcasters would see more of this kind of pressure in the future.""
*as I already pointed out, "these companies" are currently trying to acquire more TV stations than they're legally allowed to when current FCC regulations have placed a cap on how many they may own, and they need the FCC to raise the cap to complete the acquisition.
Read this post and the links in it and then tell me again how you don't get what I'm on about.
I’m not “the left”.
