The US president questions two historical chains for their negative coverage and suggests that they pay millions to operate.
The president of the United States, Donald Trumphe attacked important media, focusing his criticism on NBC and ABC, which he accused of extreme partiality and to establish a Threat to American democracy. The president’s criticisms occurred through its platform Social truthwhere he questioned the coverage of both chains and claimed actions against them.
Trump argued that “despite a very high popularity and, according to many, to be among the best eight months of presidential history, ABC and NBC ‘Fake News’, two of the worst and more biased chains in history, give me a 97% of bad news “reinforcing his accusation of systematic ideological bias. According to the president, these chains act as “A branch of the Democratic Party” and they should face regulatory sanctions by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Proposal for revocation of licenses and rates
The president also raised the possibility that the channels pay “Millions of dollars a year” for their licenses. In his messages, he insisted: “They should lose their licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or conservatives, but at least, They should pay a fortune to have the privilege of using the most valuable waves anywhere and at any time ”. Trump described these chains as “as biased and liars that represent a true threat to our democracy.”
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Context and background
The controversy adds to a history of clashes of the president with the American press. ABC had recently reached an agreement of 15 million dollars with Trump after accusations of defamation. The threat of revoking licenses or imposing rates raised by the use of the radio spectrum expands the president’s pressure on traditional media that Consider hostilein a context where the debate on Press freedom and content regulation remains in force in the United States.
Source: Ambito
