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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) by NewNic on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:50PM

    by NewNic (6420) on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:50PM (#584872) Journal

    And it was wrong over a week agostill wrong today.

    He made no such threat.

    He suggested that people might want to contest the broadcast licenses at the required FCC public hearings when their license is up for renewal if they insist on using public airwaves to only air one side of the story.

    How about you get your nose out of Trump's ass?

    He did not say that "people" should contest the license. What he said about who should contest the licenses is at best ambiguous. It's right there in the summary.

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