FCC boss Brendan Carr said CNN must face ‘accountability’ for a report he claims is inaccurate without providing evidence
Donald Trump fired off a seething threat against CNN Tuesday night in response to its reporting Iran had claimed a “great victory” over the U.S. following the president’s announcement to delay his ceasefire deadline by two weeks.
Trump had originally given Iran until 8 p.m. ET Tuesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, warning a refusal would mean a “whole civilization will die.”
Around 90 minutes before that deadline, Trump and the White House released statements saying the U.S. and Iran had agreed to negotiate an end to hostilities that would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the suspension of fighting for two weeks.
Following the announcement, CNN published a post to its online live blog detailing the Iranian response.
People claiming the US is getting nothing are again ignoring what came out in the Chat leak from last year, involving Hegseth, Gabbard, Vance, and so forth. One of their complaints was that the US was policing the region / ensuring trade routes for EU allies and Gulf states, without getting fully paid for the assets deployed in the region.
If Iran’s plan says the US leaves the region, and/or if the result is that Gulf states/EU take a more active role in the region going forward, and/or it results in those parties paying the US more to maintain a security presence in the area, those are all things that align to the objectives of the current administration. The media really needs to update their expectations / get a better read of what the administration’s objectives are – the right-wing is quite explicitly publishing things like Project 2025 / other ideological books that paint their roadmap in brutally plain terms, it really doesn’t take that much effort to dig up.
Another fun side thought, though entirely conjecture, is that the last time there was a major iranian conflict, it triggered significant recessions in many western nations. Canada, for example, had three things in the 80s that triggered interest rates to climb to 20%: Iranian energy crisis, US protectionism hammering the Canadian auto industry, and a softened global Canadian dollar/export problems. Almost seems like America’s attempting to force a similar issue. If their current gong show in the middle east triggers similar issues globally, it’d potentially even serve to help the states with their stated ambition to annex Canada via economic warfare.
It’s okay, Larry Ellison will have Skydance take a buzzsaw to CNN after they fully acquire CNN.
Media fascist messaging consolidation is why they wanted WB so bad
CNN must face ‘accountability’ for a report he claims is inaccurate without providing evidence
oh… yes goof ball… open that box…
I’m sure your friends at Fox would love for you to set the requirement that news agencies need to provide evidence for what they report.
Fox claims they arent news, but entertainment. It is how they have avoided lawsuits for decades.
They argued at one point in court that no reasonable person would believe them.
It’s not news, it’s infotainment.
It’s not a lottery, it’s sweepstakes.
It’s not a media company, it’s a technology company.
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It’s fucking crazy how we write laws to govern entities, but we miraculously ignore any potential for legal criteria to define what constitutes each entity. At minimum, enough so that those entities can reclassify themselves with a wave of the hand to avoid the regulation.
Fucking word games. That’s what our legal system has succumbed to. The same kind of shit your parents used to yell at you for.
That only applies to specific opinion shows like Tucker Carlson’s. They have actual news segments that do have requirements to report factual information
Yeah that was their argument.
“Oh THIS show is entertainment but this other one is news! They just look completely the same and air back to back!”
It was bullshit pedantry then and it still is.
It’s a reasonable distinction in theory but the two should be clearly labeled for what they are. You’re absolutely right that they intentionally don’t do that.
As far as I know, that only applied to their talk shows, like tucker carlson’s old show before he got them sued by the dominion voting machine company.
Who is going enforce that regulation for Fox, OANN, or Newsmax?
Fox isn’t news, they’ve already won this in court. But adding fox news entertainment they claim they’re not news in the same way the naked news doesn’t necessarily need to be accurate because it’s intent is entertainment not providing information. Though that said I think the naked news is likely more accurate on average then fox.
They are pointing out that he did not provide any evidence that it’s inaccurate.
Trump basically caved, and accepted a variation of Iran’s 10 point plan. The US gained basically nothing while Iran gained complete and total control over the Stait of Hormuz, which they did not have before. and now they’re going to monetize it, when it used to be free to pass through.
Oh, and Israel gets to keep bombing Lebanon.
So, yeah, by any measure, Iran really did get to claim victory here.
Oh, and Israel gets to keep bombing Lebanon.
About that. Iran and Pakistan have said, contrarily to what Israel claims, that the ceasefire includes Lebanon and applies to the US and all US allies. Soo, I guess we’re about to see whether Trump will put the ceasefire talks in jeopardy to continue being Israels bitch or is he desperate enough to throw Israel under the bus just to get out of this massive fuckup he himself created.
Israel doesn’t care and has tapes of Trump, other world leaders and billionaires. Lebanon is screwed
I think we all know which way that’s gonna go. But, hey, maybe we could all be surprised?
Why is Israel still invading Lebanon?
They claim they’re targeting Hezbollah who are firing rockets from Lebanon into Israel. Seems like they’re happy killing a bunch of civilians too.
Because Benjamin Netanyahu is a psychopathic genocidal piece of shit
Lebensraum
Bibisraum
*Lebanonsraum
Epstein was an Israeli intelligence operation to compromise ivy league types, the ruling class, with video of them fucking children. A group that includes the president.
Blackmail.
He doesn’t need a reason. He’s an evil person who just wants to kill other people.
A very specific group of other people, though. People who like to praise Allah, to be precise.
Like Trump you mean?
Nah he will kill anyone that is on the land he claims is part of the greater Israel.
Convenient that only happens to be land with Muslims on it.
They’re killing Christians too
Justin Amash’s family was targeted in their Eastern Orthodox church in the gaza thing, a former US Congressman, one that came out for impeachment against dear leader.
Not an oulier either. Israel does not just kill muslims.
Hey look it’s my CK2 Beta Israel to Israel game. That is not fucking good.
Why do people downvote this image? Epstein had one printed out in his house. This is what Israel obviously wants
Because it’s obviously AI?
I just need to download crop and blow up the Epstein map then
The US gained basically nothing
You’re forgetting, though, that Trump changed the Epstein news cycle. So since Trump doesn’t understand the difference between him and the “US,” I’m sure he’d disagree with you.
He may have shifted the new cycle temporarily, like with Venezuela, but people are still talking about it enough that it isn’t totally dead, and it’s about to come back and rear its ugly head once again. And thanks to Jimmy Kimmel repeating it nonstop, people are now starting to refer to it as the Trump-Epstein files, lol.
They’re not wrong. The way everyone but the pedophile and his protectors see it is Iran had the upper hand and US is the struggling cry baby instigator in this war. All the pedophile has been doing is whining the entire time, as Iran holds firm… what a cry baby little bitch this giant pedophile is.
*Cry-bully
Brendan Carr has no jurisdiction over cable, but we all know that’s not going to stop him from trying
With this administration, jurisdiction is wherever they think it is, and it’s up to Congress and/or the courts to disagree with him.
Or CNN is going to offer a tribute to Trump and this will go away.
We are no longer a country of law. We are a country ruled by fiat.
Any major news outlet has a duty to report statements from sovereign nations engaged in war. Obviously.
It’s important to keep perspective on what is right and what’s normal, tiring as it is lately. We have to challenge this moron’s tyranny at every little step, lest any of the insanity become normalized.
