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
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:43PM
That is a good point. Some further data:
Everyone is carefully not commenting on this:
Well, anytime I guess, from my point of view. The FCC does invite public comment on channel licensing.
Another point worth considering is past events like the saggy old boob on the sportsball superbowl half time show some years back which cost some affiliate broadcasters some money at different stations.