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CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

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Post by colechristensen »

croes wrote: post #114
colechristensen wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I'm blaming victims. If you're suffering from government oppression and you go home and cry instead of stand up for your rights, I'm blaming you for your oppression. You're only a victim if you die with your boots on, so to speak.

You can do that if you are responsible for yourself but there are lots of people with jobs behind that. It’s not on you to decide they have to die with you. But the fact that Trump buddy Ellison owns CBS takes that in a completely new direction.

I'm not engaging with someone arguing the point of appeasing, bootlicking cowards.

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Post by vharuck »

claytongulick wrote: post #84
anderber wrote: post #3

That's insane. We're talking about the government threatening a station if they air an interview with a political rival.

My understanding (please correct me if it's incorrect) is that the "worst-case" scenario for a broadcaster is that they may have to upload a record of political air time to a public file. If an opposing candidate sees this, they can then request equal air time from that broadcaster. The rule is in place so that one party or viewpoint can't dominate broadcast media. That's a good thing right? The rule change here is t…

The worst case scenario now is not limited by process and law. Compliance with politics is taken into consideration for all government business. For examples, see the executive orders blacklisting specific law firms, the withholding of funds to states or areas that vote Democratic, and the threat of investigation into a network after a host said something the President didn't like.

Re: CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

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Post by croes »

colechristensen wrote: post #131
croes wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do that if you are responsible for yourself but there are lots of people with jobs behind that. It’s not on you to decide they have to die with you. But the fact that Trump buddy Ellison owns CBS takes that in a completely new direction.

I'm not engaging with someone arguing the point of appeasing, bootlicking cowards.

Can’t decide, is this a strawman or ad hominem.

Beside this case I guess you never where responsible for hundreds of peoples lives.

Or maybe talk to some mothers and fathers what they endure to protect their families what you would call appeasement.

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Post by georgemcbay »

CGMthrowaway wrote: post #125
pdpi wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like you said: re -election. Re-election just maintains the status quo. The concern here is Talarico specifically, and that he might flip Texas.

Talarico's potential future senate seat is already occupied by someone in his own party though

> Talarico's potential future senate seat is already occupied by someone in his own party though

...??

Both current Texas Senators are Republicans. Talarico (a Democrat) is running for Cornyn's seat

Re: CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

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Post by biophysboy »

web-cowboy wrote: post #21

Rough spot in time to be: - Once print newspapers were no longer a thing, even local news outlets are struggling to stay alive, and are resulting to sensationalism and entertainment as news - Corporate sponsors retain a huge influence in mainstream news (or have outright purchased it and use it for partisan politics). - "Social" media resides in (you guessed it) corporate-owned walled gardens. - Even those willing to…

Not all the legacy newspapers are failing; NYT is doing well. There are other news sources beyond legacy newspapers, broadcasters, local news, and social media. There are wire services (AP, Reuters), insider access journalism (Axios, Punchbowl, Semafor), public media (NPR, PBS, BBC), investigative journalism (ProPublica), digital-first outlets (Politico, Vox), and the growing wave of small, indie , creator-led media (YouTube, Substack, Patreon).

Re: CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

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Post by johannes1234321 »

hackyhacky wrote: post #69
croes wrote: post #54

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Victim blaming? Greedy for trying to stay in business. If you didn’t fight hard enough it’s your fault? You let the government of the hook to easily. By your logic you‘re a perpetrator too because he don’t blame the real bad guy

> Greedy for trying to stay in business. If CBS were headed by someone with gumption and less willingness to kowtow to the government, they could resist this pressure and still be fine. Worst case scenario, a merger would get rejected and they would be targeted by some spurious lawsuits. Going out of business is not a realistic risk. What is a risk, however, is non-optimal shareholder value . We live in a world where…

For CVS the stock price isn't the driver. It's owned to 77% by the Ellison family, who certainly want to make a buck, but also want political influence and control.

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Post by tomwheeler »

etchalon wrote: post #27
lenerdenator wrote: post #5

Well, what can the average person do to get CBS to air it?

You can't get CBS to air it, but you can let people know not to watch CBS.

And eventually, future calculations from CBS about whether they have more to lose by suppressing the story or airing it will favor the latter. Or so few people will still watch CBS that their business fails. Either way, it's a win.

Re: CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

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Post by steve1977 »

georgemcbay wrote: post #99
steve1977 wrote: post #74

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Normal authoritarian state behavior, no?

> Normal authoritarian state behavior, no? Yes. And the most surprising thing about this particular story to me is that a lot of people (here in the comments) seem surprised about it. I don't mean to normalize this, because it isn't normal, but anyone surprised by this hasn't been paying attention over the past year+, this didn't arrive out of the blue.

It's like people are "oh I thought Project 2025 was just a meme, lol"

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Post by lawstkawz »

sapphicsnail wrote: post #127
daseiner1 wrote: post #86

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democracies past, present, and future inevitably crumble as the need to cater to the demos grows greater and greater with every generation of voters. i know this is a contrivance but nevertheless: we don't consult the entire hospital how to treat my heart condition yet we accept on face value that obeying the vagaries of the hoi polloi is the best way to decide who controls the levers of power in civil society.

Our country is being run by unaccountable elites and they're doing a terrible job. They're not catering to anyone other than their donors.

Having grown up rural, fixing farm equipment, rebuilding cars, which propelled me towards a degree in electrical engineering (and after that an MSc in math), my colleagues the last 20 years have watched a lot of TV and played all the video games but can barely bake a potato.

"Unaccountable elites" are enabled by know-nothings in corporate management, software engineering teams, accounting, HR "just following orders".

The lack of muscle memory to be self sufficient keeps people in their lane and unable to look away, fix their own stuff, make their own stuff.

When labor knows nothing but just following orders leadership is empowered to build and fill gulags; what are the people going to do? Resist en masse? Not when they are addicted to GrubHub delivery of Subway.

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