Disaffected Republicans and former Trump officials spoke at the DNC. Fox News didn't air a second of any of their speeches.
Disaffected Republicans and former Trump officials spoke at the DNC. Fox News didn't air a second of any of their speeches.
Fox News did not air a second of the speeches from alienated GOP leaders and former Trump officials who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris at this week’s Democratic National Convention.
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I got kicked out from Radio, Television, and Film school for poor grades, poor attendance, and a number of other poor choices, so I really don't know what I'm talking about when I ask this question:
Doesn't that violate the Equal Time Rule?
Doesn’t that violate the Equal Time Rule?
not at all, nor should that rule even exist. It's always been a bunch of bullshit pushed by conservatives to normalize their positions.
But without fairness and balance, how are the masses supposed to think unpopular ideas have significant support???
According to this FCC fact sheet:
Equal opportunities and other political-related benefits are available only to individuals who have attained the status of “legally qualified candidate.” These rules do not apply to cable channels or web-based video or audio such as streamed video content, podcasts, or social media.
And since Fox News is a cable channel, it does not apply
I'm almost positive that Fox isn't cable... It's broadcast and carried by cable companies because they're required to do so by the FCC
Probably not, since they did cover a presidential candidate and other speakers are not the ones running.
No. The Equal Time Rule is about stations providing equal airtime access to candidates.
Equal airtime for all candidates or just democrats and Republicans?
Mostly the latter, as the two capitalist parties jealously guard their duopoly.
Would you agree that it doesn’t break the letter of the law but it skirts the spirit of the law? Like, if they aired the RNC in its entirity but selectively skipped parts of the DNC…
The spirit of the law doesn't mean anything. The law itself barely even means anything given how it's enforced. I'm not exactly seeing equal access for third party candidates. This is just the ruling class negotiating via the two parties.
Oof, I guess if I'm gonna split hairs, I gotta go all-in. A third party candidates even recognized as candidates by the FCC?
Good God, how fucked is this country?
On this particular topic the two parties basically just throw lawyers at the system they created for themselves in order to fight each other. For example, they made networks take down some reruns of Trump's shows during the last election. As if that would matter when the networks give him infinite free coverage, lol.
Third parties have little recourse both because they don't have the cash to throw around and because the two major parties just constantly put up barriers to entry, usually needing to exceed an arbitrary percentage of votes in the last election (an arbitrary percentage that the two parties increase whenever a third party gets close).
This country is basically just 100 capitalists in a trenchcoat making us all fight them and each other and people overseas over all the problems caused by the system that keeps them in power.
This country is basically just 100 capitalists in a trenchcoat making us all fight them and each other and people overseas over all the problems caused by the system that keeps them in power.
Sure, sure... But in return, we get to look down on unhoused people who are starving from manufactured hunger.
Also, that's a giant fucking trench coat!
We have the best and biggest trenchcoat, everybody says so.
Sure, that is their MO though