The link in the OP does not take you the article.

Frank wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 4:10pm:



Really? Right wing news providers have been stripped of their licenses before?

I honestly shudder at the thought of how many spittle laden commas we would have had to deal with form you if Biden had de-platformed any news agency that didn't reference him positively. They'd be shooting people in the US.

As for cancel culture, you lot fizzing over an M&M changing it's shoes utterly invalidates you from ever playing that particular card ever again. Made Tinky Winky look like the child's business it was intended to be in the first place.

Leroy wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 9:11am:


If it was to be Vance who replaced Trump, it would be just as bad because he has no spine. He went from criticising Trump to being one of his most fervent supporters. Same goes for many members of his cabinet. Not a spine amongst them!

mothra wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 9:08am:

mothra wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 9:38am:

Who did Trump actually dellatform?

A study released earlier this year by the conservative media watchdog group, Media Research Center (MRC), found that coverage of the president’s first 100 days in office was “92% negative.”

“IF THAT IS THE CASE,” Trump wrote in his characteristic use of all caps, “THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED.”

Trump said he would be “totally in favor” of the move because – according to him – these outlets are “so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy.”

The president followed up with another post attacking both outlets as “FAKE NEWS” and “two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the world.”

Trump questioned why both entities aren’t “paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES.”

“They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!!” Trump wrote. “Crooked ‘journalism’ should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!”

Being national networks, ABC and NBC News do not hold FCC licenses for news content but provide programming for local affiliates across the country – which are regulated by the FCC and require licensing to operate in the US.

TV stations pay fees and annual regulatory fees based on station type and market, while cable outlets pay their own regulatory fees. Only congress has the authority to impose and collect such fees, which are deposited in the US Treasury.

Any move to revoke licenses based on real or perceived news bias would run afoul of First Amendment protections. Similar attempts in the past have been struck down by the courts.

This is not the first time Trump has attacked broadcast outlets or threatened to strip their licenses. Last year, Trump settled a defamation suit against ABC for $15 million, and he famously hosted “The Apprentice” on NBC before entering the world of politics.

And earlier this year, Paramount Global and CBS agreed to pay out a settlement over the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network.

mothra wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 10:09am:

The prez doesn't control the media.

Trump expressed the frustration millions have with the blatantly biased MSM. Nowhere did he say that HE would cancel licences or impose fines or close TV networks. As the idiotic OP and thread title verbal him, as blatantly biased as any NBC or ABC.

This thread, like all the others started by the same 2-3 woke toddlers and despicable slanderers on the America forum, are twisted, stupid TDS misrepresentations. Eagerly lapped up by idiots like you who love the frisson of self-rigteous preening and can simply never get enough of it. It's your mental, moral self-pleasuring vibrator.