Posted on 12/26/2024 10:57:41 AM PST by bitt
"Dear Bob, Nice fake news network you have there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it. Love, Brendan."
That isn't quite what incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr wrote to Disney CEO Bob Iger this week, but it was pretty dang close.
Carr has served on the Federal Communications Commission since 2017 and is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to serve as chairman next year. And he's taking no gruff from Disney-owned ABC News, which just agreed to pay $15 million in damages (and another million in legal fees) for defaming Trump during a "This Week" segment earlier this year.
In an official FCC letter dated Dec. 21 (and just released on X by Rasmussen), Carr opened by reminding Iger that "Americans no longer trust the national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly" and that "ABC's own conduct has certainly contributed to this erosion in public."
You might wonder what's newsworthy about any of that, and you'd be right to. But Carr merely used ABC's tarnished reputation as a jumping-off point for what really matters to Disney HQ: wringing more dollars out of ABC's local affiliates.
"When we talk about trust in media, though, it is important to draw a distinction between national programming outlets like ABC," Carr continues, "and the many local broadcast TV stations that are working to serve their local communities. Indeed, Americans view those two types of media entities very differently." Viewers increasingly tune out ABC News — and all the other big-name, three-letter outlets — but still trust their KXXX or WXXX affiliate.
"It is against this backdrop — the vast divide in trust between the national news media and local outlets — that I write you today" because "My understanding is that ABC is attempting to extract onerous financial
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Iger has pretty much destroyed Disney.
Heck, not even national corporate, either: News in and of itself is programming meant to program people, which was the intent of its founder Walter Lippmann. Just read up on his instruction manual Public Opinion, specifically Manufacturing of Consent. And that guy HATED Corporate and National at the time, was a full-time commie and at one point a Soviet sympathizer.
Iger should NEVER have been hired into Disney.
And BTW, shouldn’t Katzenberg be listed there as well? Even during the 1990s he talked similar stuff.
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