I’ve never seen that moniker before. Thanks!
That must be unconstitutional…right?
Trump arguably did a version of that when he blocked his critics. And the problem with that, according to the court, is that the president uses Twitter in his official capacity as a public servant.
The First Amendment prohibits an official who uses a social media account for government purposes from excluding people from an “otherwise open online dialogue” because they say things that the official finds objectionable, Judge Parker wrote.
I know these aren’t perfect analogies, but I feel like they address the same issue.
Ron Filipkowski says:
This is insane. Fox is now threatening to sue all other networks if they air more than a total of 3 minutes of clips from the upcoming Republican debate during a 7 day time period on a show. 3 minutes total per show for an entire week
Two possible responses:
- Ha ha losers see you in court then
- Every network, radio station and media outlet simply does not report a thing.
I prefer option 2
Trump won’t participate in the Republican debate anyway, so what’s even the point of having it?
Trepanning, perhaps?
Maybe a few innings with Shohei Otani and a Louisville Slugger.
IANA media analyst, but it kind of sounds to me like Fox is using the classic abuser tactic of isolating their victims from any source of judgement or support except themselves.
If the rest of your social circle can’t find out what your abuser is doing to you your network is showing you, then they won’t be telling you why it’s bad and you shouldn’t put up with it.
I bet Trump really hates the term ‘Public Servant.’ I’m quite sure he’s never used it to describe himself.
Disgraced former public servant. I like it.
Heh. Not really looking forward to seeing us getting hit with spambots promising us links to the Republican Debates (the way they used to promise links to soccer games. Do they still do that?).
Aren’t there fair use guidelines / regulations, and don’t they (not Fox’s wishes) rule the day? Any attorneys want to chime in?
Wait until he discovers that brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts are brown. And some Pop Tarts have rainbow sprinkles on them.
And people, look at the shape of a hot dog!
Makes it easier to slide it between the buns.
Yeah, when it comes to this, the other side needs to employ the “But what if we didn’t?” strategy. Tell Fox to get bent, and use whatever you want, from whatever source you want.
It’s the last line in point 3 that really bothers me. The other news agencies are only allowed to use excerpts “that have been telecast by Fox News in their entirety”. Seems to me that gives Fox full editorial control over what appears everywhere else in the world. Fox can edit or delete anything they want, and you can’t even call them out on it.
Given the choice of ignoring this debate entirely, or letting Fox spin the narrative on every news channel in the world, ignoring is the only option that makes sense.
As so graphically shown in Sausage Party.
And then, of course, they’ll use it as a club and say “See how biased those other networks are? They won’t even show the debate!”.
Every time I see a picture of Stephen Miller, I think of Quint’s line from Jaws: “He’s got lifeless eyes… like doll’s eyes…”
I’ve never seen anyone in politics who looks more like the guy you’d get if you called Central Casting and said, “Send me a sleazy, unlikeable, condescending sneak.”
“All Stephen Miller does is swim and eat and make little baby Stephen Millers, and that’s all.”
And groomers parents serve them to their children! 
Go to your room and don’t come out. Ever. 
I can’t decide if this is more stupid or evil: Vivek Ramaswamy:”Some 20,000 members of the FBI would be let go as he dismantles the agency
He says a lot more, in the article but that bit jumped out at me.