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: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:27PM
"NBC and the Networks", the bogeyman Trump identified in his tweet [twitter.com], do not have broadcast licenses. The individual local stations do. By all means, try to challenge them. Is there a kind of complaint that would be successful in getting a license revoked other than the station interrupting children's programming to show hardcore pornography?
We're seeing a lot more 100% lies coming from Trump than 100% fake news coming from the lamestream media. The premise of his tweet was stupid and self-serving (to the extent that a non-starter idea can be self-serving).
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