ACTION ALERT: Urge MSNBC to Cover Biden FCC Pick Blocked by Big Media
JUNE 15, 2022
JULIE HOLLAR
President Joe Biden nominated consumer advocate Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Committee last October, yet the Senate has still failed to bring her nomination to a vote (FAIR.org, 4/19/22). Behind the scenes, corporate media, afraid of having a staunch defender of the public interest on the commission, are lobbying against her. One of those corporations, Comcast, owns a major cable news network that has been conspicuously silent about the stalled nomination.
While Fox News has brought up Sohn’s nomination nine times since November (to call her “radical” and “scary”—e.g., Tucker Carlson Tonight, 11/30/21), Comcast-owned MSNBC hasn’t mentioned her on any of its programs. (There was a one-sentence reference to her in a Steve Benen post on MSNBC.com—12/7/21—about Republican hypocrisy on “mean tweets.”)
It’s not that MSNBC won’t touch any stories about obstruction of Biden nominees, which has reached an unprecedented level in the Senate. It’s reported on Sen. Ron Johnson (R.–Wisc.) attempting to block Biden’s nominee to be an envoy on antisemitism (Deadline: White House, 2/10/22); on Republicans holding up his nominees for US attorney in Washington, DC (Rachel Maddow Show, 10/20/21), and myriad ambassadorships (Andrea Mitchell Reports, 12/8/21); and on their blockades against nominees for the Federal Reserve board (Andrea Mitchell Reports, 2/17/22).
The Rachel Maddow Show (4/18/22) reported on the American Accountability Foundation, a new right-wing dark money group launching smear campaigns against a whole slate of Biden nominees, uncovered by the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer (4/16/22). Though Sohn is spotlighted on the group’s hit list, Maddow (and Mayer) didn’t mention her as a target.
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