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posted by FatPhil on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the unsafe-at-any-typing-speed dept.

Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.

"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.

Mr Trump's tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America's nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed stead reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.

Source: Donald Trump threatens to shut down NBC and other TV news networks that criticise him


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:22PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:22PM (#584778)

    The first amendment means that even The Donald can flap his yap about damn near anything he wants.

    This will only begin to think of being a story when there's an outside possibility that this might be done - and not blocked by the courts. Why? Because it's a content-based restriction on speech that is the most protected class of speech that we have - i.e. political speech ostensibly in the public interest.

    When will people wise up to the fact that Trump tweets this sort of crap whenever he's trying to distract attention from what he's actually achieving behind the scenes, or trying to? If every outrage that actually came across along the lines of TRUMP BIRTHS FASCISM were actually true, we'd all be in a very different world. But they're not. They're distractions.

    And you people are falling for it. Bigly.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:31PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:31PM (#584791)

    Ok oh wise one, enlighten us about what is really happening then. Lots of bad stuff I'm sure, but if you're so high-and-mighty you can tell us poor rubes.

    • (Score: 1) by applesmasher on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:51PM (1 child)

      by applesmasher (53) on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:51PM (#584813)

      Donald Trump is a lizard person in league with the Raelians to deliver our precious fluid resources to their Arcturan masterbrain!

      Wake up, sheeple!

      --
      Ever seen an apple hit by a .22WMR?
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:13PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:13PM (#584833)

      The same thing that's always been happening, under Obama and under Bush: Financial enslavement via central banks and endless wars courtesy of the military industrial complex.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:13PM (#584940)

        Yes OK, but without specifics there is nothing we can even really do. Write your congressman? "Umm sir, I feel Trump's bullshit is just distracting from the real issues. I would like you to oppose the financial enslavement of US citizens please."

        You know that's how you get a higher slot on "the list" right? Gotta at least have specifics, wild rants and you are upgraded to "loony bin" instead of "cynical citizen".

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:20PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:20PM (#584838)

      AC is wrong in some areas, OK in others. It is, as AC pointed out, all about attention.

      Part of curing fake news is pointing out CNN is merely a left wing propaganda outlet. Trump has 100% control of the media he is very good at manipulating them into repeating anything he wants them to repeat. He's using the white house to shine a spotlight that makes the cockroaches scatter, or at least complain about how bright the light is. No its not really a FCC license or supreme ct issue, its a "hey would you do me a favor and inform the general public for me, yet again, the meme that CNN equals propaganda? K thx bye" and they do it every time.

      Then there's the choir aspect, either making fun of it or shitposting to the choir or whatever. His spotlight kicks sand in the eyes of the eternal blue pills, maybe red pills some folks (probably not many), and gives the red pilled something to laugh about. He's being an entertainer. Politicians have been doing this for ... centuries maybe? Tell em what they want to hear not what you can actually do...

      The fact of the matter is leftism is ugly, so pointing it out is inherently helpful to the right.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @01:59AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @01:59AM (#585052)

        Did you have a stroke recently?