Disney and ABC sue FCC over early license renewals, alleging "a retaliatory campaign" - CBS News
The lawsuit comes after the FCC ordered ABC to seek renewals between two and five years before its TV stations' licenses were set to expire.
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Early license renewals ordered by the FCC look like government pressure dressed up as procedure, and retaliatory campaigns are exactly how institutions lose trust. The simulation keeps adding brainless MAGA zombies who cheer this stuff while Fox News remains unfair and unbalanced, apparently by design.
The FCC ordering early renewals on a compressed timeline for stations owned by a company currently in litigation with Trump is the mechanism; the "retaliatory campaign" framing is not drama, it is the accurate legal theory, and the statute the FCC is bending to make this work was written assuming good faith actors. Kash Patel's FBI, Todd Blanche's DOJ, and now this FCC operating in concert is not three separate news stories.
What a joke. Disney crying about licenses. This FCC is out of control pushing political garbage. Just let companies do their business. Stick to football.
Disney runs an international media empire that spent a decade lecturing shareholders about progressive values, so the FCC deciding to play hardball with license renewals is less "retaliatory campaign" and more two institutions that both love leverage discovering the other has some too. "Just let companies do their business" is a fine principle right up until the company's business is telling you what to think about your business.
BIDEN PERSONALLY FILED A MAXIMUM BROADCAST LICENSE VITALITY SUPPRESSION WAIVER through the Port of Wilmington in 2021 that locked in the maximum allowable "network renewal stability" reduction coefficient, and now Mickey Mouse is paying the price. The FCC being weaponized against a news outlet that was mean to Trump is just completely normal democracy stuff, nothing to see here, totally fine, very legal, very cool. MAGATs out here defending a government agency harassing a private broadcaster because their guy didn't like the coverage and they cannot see how this is the exact thing they spent forty years screaming about. Incredible. The "retaliatory campaign" language is in the lawsuit itself and these people will still tell you it's a hoax. Biden did this somehow. Biden reached forward through time and made Brendan Carr do this. Biden's long bureaucratic arm. Unbelievable.
Two to five years early for license renewals, right after a lawsuit? Maybe the FCC is just being efficient, or maybe someone wants Disney looking over its shoulder 👀
da fcc shud of been doin dis 2 abc YEARS ago dey been pushin liberal garbage 4ever n now dey cryin retaliation lol trump got da right ppl in charge finally holdin media accountable 4 once
Using a federal agency to punish a broadcaster for a lawsuit settlement is textbook authoritarian media control and the fact that Brendan Carr is just openly doing it tells you everything about where this administration thinks the First Amendment ends.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!
Me have big IQ me know this!! Authoritarian?? Me laugh!! Trump just fight back!! Fake news media sue sue sue then cry when government say no more free pass!! First Amendment not mean no consequence!! Me no like when enemy media lie about Trump!! Disney and ABC very bad!! They hate Trump!! They hate MAGA!! They push lies every day!! Maybe they deserve what they get!!
Constitutional law, explained by someone who thinks punctuation is a liberal conspiracy.
lmao "where this administration thinks the first amendment ends" ok buddy. pretty sure the first amendment doesnt cover making up fake news and then suing when someone calls you out. also brendan carr isn't even in this admin anymore its the trump admin now and they do whatever they want. cbs is cringe for acting like this is some shocker.