Posted on 01/15/2022 6:12:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We see a constant effort from liberal groups to take down conservative hosts and conservative media. It seems there’s a push periodically to do in Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and others. There’s a current push to even demonize Joe Rogan who isn’t exactly conservative but suffers from three things that the liberal media doesn’t like – common sense, honest approach, and more viewers than them.
As we reported a couple of days ago, there was even a push to get Spotify to shut Rogan down, for “misinformation,” but Spotify appears not to be caving. We also saw Dan Bongino suspended from YouTube again, with that magical word “misinformation” — which translates to “things that the left doesn’t like to hear.”
Now there’s news that DirecTV intends to stop carrying One America News Network’s two channels, once their contract expires in early April. While they would still be carried by Verizon FiOS and other, smaller pay-TV providers, DirecTV is OANN’s largest distributor. So, this would basically cripple them, if not do them in, in terms of revenue. According to Reuters reporter Brad Heath, OANN has said it gets 90 percent of its revenue from DirecTV owner AT&T. It’s hard to survive losing 90 percent of your revenue, if that’s true.
Although pay-TV providers have been dropping channels to lower costs, “critics” (translate: People on the left who want to shut down opposing opinion) have been pressing distributors to stop carrying them, Bloomberg acknowledges.
The left is crowing in celebration today and calling for Fox and Newsmax to come next. Because “democracy.” It seems, to liberals, “democracy” translates to shutting down all opinion that differs from what you want.
Meidas Touch, a political operative group operating on behalf of Democrats and claiming to be “pro-democracy,” takes credit for pressuring @DIRECTV into canceling @OANN. pic.twitter.com/LWMDgHTuwp
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) January 15, 2022
Now do Fox News!!! #OANN https://t.co/9Ml9Ngln9q
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 15, 2022
This also follows a push by Joe Biden calling upon tech companies to shut down “misinformation” (according to him).
NOW – Biden: "I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets — please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows. It has to stop."pic.twitter.com/NeVU74web3
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 13, 2022
Who gets to decide what “misinformation” is? Joe Biden? The man who himself is a billboard for misinformation? The man who has made up all kinds of false stories from meeting a dead Amtrak conductor to claiming he was arrested for civil rights? The guy who falsely calls this the pandemic of the unvaccinated and until fairly recently (just last month) was saying you said if you were vaccinated, you couldn’t spread the virus?
Will we have daily missives from our Democratic overlords as to what is acceptable to say now? If we want to talk about media misinformation, we can point you to a boatload of information on CNN, MSNBC, and other liberal media. Just scroll through our site. Will we be seeing them getting booted from providers anytime soon?
Of course not, because that is acceptable to the Democratic narrative. Now, it’s not clear all the factors that entered into DirecTV’s decision, it is clear that the left is trying to shut down and block conservative media. We need to do all we can to stand in their way and support speech.
The War on Freedom of Speech is so ugly.
The First Amendment is first for a reason:
It protects everything eldse.
How is DTV still in bidnuss?
If OANN had lots of viewers their contract would be renewed.
How could OAN get 90% of their revenue from DTV? It doesn’t make sense.
I’d say Second Amendment is the protector. It backs up the First Amendment. The First may be the most important. But all of the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights are weak without the Second.
Without The Peoples’ right to keep and bear arms, government would use it’s legal monopoly on use of force to run roughshod over its citizens.
The People of Australia gave up the right to keep and bear arms and look how quickly their government turned against them under the cover of containing covid.
If OANN had lots of viewers their contract would be renewed.
Nonsense. The Big Tech fascists made millions off selling ads for President Trump’s content. What happened there?
I watch on Roku. Unless a person can’t get it. Cable is a dying medium.
I have it on Verizon FIOS.
We canceled our directv today. Got on Klowd on our roku with the OAN package and are saving $60 a month.
Wanted to watch Trumps rally tonight. Turned on Newsmax and nothing but black screen. All other channels were available. We called the provider and were told because of low viewership they did not renew contract. The guy said it ended 12/31, which is not true because we have had Newsmax on since. (Did the same thing several years ago with OAN). We live in SC and this is definitely a Trump area, so they are lying.
I’m watching Trump on the free Newsmax APP.
Trump Live on Rumble right now.
I’m watching President Trump’s rally right now on Newsmax, DirecTV.
I agree that both are necessary and interdependent.
You are wrong.
Businesses are going against their financial best interests in order to enforce the leftist worldview.
“If OANN had lots of viewers their contract would be renewed. “
Probably true. Are they even in the top 125 ?
This is totally political.
I sometimes read OANN on the Innertubes. As far as I can see it’s just another also-ran in the conservative news field. Hate to say it, but I won’t see it as any great loss to Conservatism.
I wish Dishnet would pick OAN up and replace NBC which I haven’t seen now for 3 months.
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