{"id":15269,"date":"2024-11-05T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:32:18","slug":"trump-thinks-news-outlets-should-lose-their-broadcast-licenses-even-when-they-have-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15269","title":{"rendered":"Trump Thinks News Outlets Should Lose Their Broadcast Licenses, Even When They Have None"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Trump has repeatedly re-upped the idea that broadcast licenses should be contingent on whether they are used to air content that offends him. Last November, for instance, he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111491888930107081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained<\/a>&nbsp;that MSNBC &#8220;uses FREE government approved airwaves&#8221; to execute &#8220;a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE.&#8221; He declared that &#8220;our so-called &#8216;government&#8217; should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That jeremiad was nonsensical in at least two ways. First, there is nothing &#8220;illegal&#8221; about MSNBC&#8217;s anti-Trump content; to the contrary, the criticism to which Trump objects is constitutionally protected speech. Second, MSNBC is a cable channel, so it does not use &#8220;government approved airwaves&#8221; to transmit its programming and therefore does not need a broadcast license to operate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-thinks-news-outlets-should-lose-their-broadcast-licenses-even-when-they-have-none\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-thinks-news-outlets-should-lose-their-broadcast-licenses-even-when-they-have-none<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trump has repeatedly re-upped the idea that broadcast licenses should be contingent on whether they are used to air content that offends him. Last November, for instance, he complained that MSNBC &#8220;uses FREE government approved airwaves&#8221; to execute &#8220;a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE.&#8221; He declared that &#8220;our so-called &#8216;government&#8217; should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat jeremiad was nonsensical in at least two ways. First, there is nothing &#8220;illegal&#8221; about MSNBC&#8217;s anti-Trump content; to the contrary, the criticism to which Trump objects is constitutionally protected speech. Second, MSNBC is a cable channel, so it does not use &#8220;government approved airwaves&#8221; to transmit its programming and therefore does not need a broadcast license to operate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-thinks-news-outlets-should-lose-their-broadcast-licenses-even-when-they-have-none\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2113,2114,221,875,848,2115,11,170],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-broadcast","tag-cable","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-msnbc","tag-news","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15270,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions\/15270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}