Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses

[notdeplorable]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Washington Examiner

President Trump said last week that broadcast TV licenses "must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked" in response to "partisan, distorted and fake" news coverage. But few people seem to have taken him seriously, even though complaints against broadcasters are easy to file.

Publicly available data from the Federal Communications Commission show there wasn't a significant bump in consumer complaints against TV stations after a pair of Trump tweets Thursday, despite the fact that complaints are made using a simple online form or phone call.

Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/few-heeded-trumps-call-to-challenge-tv-licenses/article/2637985

[MrsCoffee]

1. Please tell me that right wing rags are not now being used as latest breaking news on DU.

[xor]

2. Seems like a shit stirring article by the Washington Examiner

saying "We're not telling you to report media outlets, but if you really want to then you can do it easily through an online form"

[Gothmog]

3. Trump is ignorant about FCC licenses

[left-of-center2012]

4. Don't shoot the messenger

The O.P.'s message is of interest:

"Publicly available data from the Federal Communications Commission show there wasn't a significant bump
in consumer complaints against TV stations after a pair of Trump tweets Thursday ..."

Trump tried to get his base to complain, and few did.
That's good news,
regardless of the source.

Thanks to "notdeplorable" for posting this. Apparently no one else did?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Locking - the Washington Examiner is a right wing source, and not reliable enough for LBN

In addition, this seems like analysis, rather than an event in its own right that is 'news'.