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.
It’s a great news site. They tell the TRUTH. They have been exposing the Plandemic Hoax so that’s probably the real reason they are being dumped by DTV. We dumped DTV when Fox helped cheat the election. I know lots of people that have dumped DTV because of the cost especially when you can stream for free. I pay separately for the OAN app but they are on Pluto and some other streaming services. They need a medal for bravery for the things they have been exposing. They don’t have the budget these corrupt, bought and paid for by the CCP and the deep state conglomerate news agencies have but they do an excellent job and I’m sure the other news agencies hate them.
When they come after firearms, those in opposition will be silenced for spreading "misinformation".
They will use this power to destroy the Bill of Rights.
“If OANN had lots of viewers their contract would be renewed.”
Then why is CNN still on the air?
“I won’t see it as any great loss to Conservatism”
You couldn’t be more wrong with this comment.
According to Dun & Bradstreet, their revenues (Herring Networks, Inc. owner of OAN) has revenues of $13.6M US, pretty small. Maybe some one could step in to keep them going, for the sake of keeping another news outlet for free speech.
When Graham Ledger left OAN....I pretty much stopped watching.
Well they did it. Direct tv no longer has OANN on a screen tells you it is no longer part of their programming and something about selecting alternative news… was
redirected straight to the communist news’s network no lie.
No more money for censorship from me to them. Cut them off.
Why pay someone who doesn’t support your values, besides watching commercials more of the time than crappy programming was getting old but this blatant censorship and first amendment step on is it for me. Join me and step on direct tv
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/25/outrage-erupts-right-directv-pulls-plug-conservati/
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