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Title: Trump threatens 'Saturday Night Live' with federal investigation and charges comedy show as an 'an advertisement without consequences' for mocking him
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Daily Mail
URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar ... unday-morning-tweet-storm.html
Published: Mar 18, 2019
Author: Emily Goodin
Post Date: 2019-03-18 06:40:50 by IbJensen
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Views: 2902
Comments: 29
President Trump began his Sunday morning venting about 'Saturday Night Live' He complained about the show's parody of him, charging them as 'an advertisement without consequences' to help Democrats
He suggested federal regulators should investigate
'Saturday Night's Live' brand of satire is considered protected speech under the first amendment
Trump has often been mocked by the show with Alec Baldwin portraying him as bumbling commander in chief
Hillary Clinton was mocked by the program during the 2016 election
President Donald Trump began his Sunday morning venting about 'Saturday Night Live,' complaining the show should be investigated by federal regulators for mocking him but not Democrats.
The president complained their treatment of him was 'like an advertisement without consequences' and a boost to help Democrats.
'It's truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of 'the other side.' Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows,' he wrote on Twitter.
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Just last month the president suggested his government should look carefully at comedic 'hit jobs' against Republicans.
'Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!' Trump blasted in a Sunday morning tweet on February 17. 'Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!'
Trump has been fighting claims for more than two years that his 2016 campaign colluded with agents of the Kremlin to impact the result of the presidential election.
The concept of a hopelessly biased political press corps is one argument that buoyed Trump's first candidacy, and which campaign insiders say he will return to repeatedly as he runs in 2020.
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There's only so much of this ridiculousness from the media that a person could take no matter who it is. Problem with his theory is you'd have to go after every late night talk show as well. (2 images)
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0) (Edited)
'Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!'
Oh for crying out loud Donald - grow a thicker skin!
'Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution?
How do Limbaugh and FOX News get away with 24/7 sucking up to Trump?
The Fairness Doctrine was revoked in 1987
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the FCC's view—honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011.
What Trump should do instead of whine is to try and get that re-instated.
It's unclear if so-called "comedy" shows were covered in the Fairness Doctrine.
It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows, or editorials. The doctrine did not require equal time for opposing views but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented.
I agree with Trump that the MSM networks are adamantly against him - but his demand is not the right way to go about making the networks more balanced.
His constant whining about it simply makes him appear undignified and petty.
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#2. To: Deckard, IbJensen (#1) (Edited)
I agree with Trump that the MSM networks are adamantly against him - but his demand is not the right way to go about making the networks more balanced.
But He Fights.
Trump's objective may be merely to call out the SNL crew and media bias in general and to create a little Twitter shitstorm about it between Left and Right with Big Media caught in the middle. There's good reason to think this is his motivation since he undoubtedly has good lawyers at the WH and DOJ who will tell him that he can't win in court.
His objective might also be to set the stage to exclude NBC, for instance, from the WH press pool or to instruct his press secretary to take almost no questions from any NBC reporter or to maybe demote them from the front rows of the press briefing room to the back row, as Tony Snow once did to Helen Thomas (which largely ended her prominence before her career came to an abrupt end over some minor antisemitic comment she made after she was demoted from the WH press pool's front row).
A president doesn't have to win in court to score a victory in rallying public opinion or manipulating elements of the libmedia.
His constant whining about it simply makes him appear undignified and petty.
Isn't it a little too late to worry about that? LOL
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