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Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him

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

DeathMonkey brings us this story from The Independent:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:39PM (2 children)

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:39PM (#584955)

    So someone in a position of authority says that they would like to legally challenge some entity that may not be operating within their regulated space (i.e. License) makes them a dictator?

    Shrewd logic..

    In this case, he didn't even say he'd do it, just asking when would it be appropriate - almost rethorical. That quoted statement in TFS clearly doesn't even reconcile with the News headline in TFS.

    As others pointed out he's wrong in that those entities he referenced aren't actually regulated (with a License), but that just makes him ignorant. Far stretch from a dictator.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @02:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @02:19PM (#585237)

    So someone in a position of authority says that they would like to legally challenge some entity that may not be operating within their regulated space (i.e. License) makes them a dictator?

    Yes, actually. For someone of the highest authority to even suggest that others he doesn't like should be stripped of their authority, the label "dictator" is appropriate. It doesn't matter if it is Trump about the press, or Maduro about government prosecutors, or Erdogan about Gulen, or Hitler about the jews. It should all be viewed through the same lens, and should not be weaseled away just because you like one of them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:57PM (#585271)

    In this case, he didn't even say he'd do it, just asking when would it be appropriate - almost rethoricalrhethorically.

    Come on now... at least be intellectually honest. Sure, he 'asked' the question but he didn't just ask it. He 'asked' it because he wants to get people to pressure whoever need to be pressured and to make it clear to members of his administration that this would 'please the emperor'...
    Just see whether when you 'ask' the a question framed in the exact same fashion regarding termination-of-life of the head of the governmental executive. See how long it would take for you 'just asking a question, almost rhetorically' to land in front of a couple of SS agents being grilled for multiple hours.