{"id":20646,"date":"2025-12-05T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20646"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:11:27","slug":"a-reporters-unwelcome-questions-provoke-yet-another-trump-threat-to-yank-broadcast-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20646","title":{"rendered":"A Reporter&#8217;s Unwelcome Questions Provoke Yet Another Trump Threat To Yank Broadcast Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;As Trump sees it, broadcasters have a legal obligation to treat him fairly. And if they fail to do so, he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-media-news-free-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thinks<\/a>, they should lose the licenses that allow them to transmit programming over &#8220;free airwaves from the United States government.&#8221; That position reflects Trump&#8217;s general antipathy toward freedom of the press, which he seems to view as a privilege subject to government approval rather than a right guaranteed by the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/19\/a-reporters-unwelcome-questions-provoke-yet-another-trump-threat-to-yank-broadcast-licenses\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/19\/a-reporters-unwelcome-questions-provoke-yet-another-trump-threat-to-yank-broadcast-licenses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Trump sees it, broadcasters have a legal obligation to treat him fairly. And if they fail to do so, he thinks, they should lose the licenses that allow them to transmit programming over &#8220;free airwaves from the United States government.&#8221; That position reflects Trump&#8217;s general antipathy toward freedom of the press, which he seems to view as a privilege subject to government approval rather than a right guaranteed by the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/19\/a-reporters-unwelcome-questions-provoke-yet-another-trump-threat-to-yank-broadcast-licenses\/<\/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":[1104,864,431,660,221,971,2006,295,513,138,170],"class_list":["post-20646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-press","tag-freedom-of-press","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-press","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646","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=20646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20647,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions\/20647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}