Disney Sues FCC On First Amendment Grounds

 

Under the vindictive Malignant Fascist, his FCC has been used as a tool of coercion and censorship, threatening media outlets if they have programming that offends the MF.  Now, Disney / ABC is pushing back on the FCC's threat to challenge its broadcast licenses by suing the commission.  The Associated Press reports:

"Disney filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission alleging a violation of its First Amendment rights.

The suit comes after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Friday recently defended the agency’s actions against ABC, saying broadcasters have a duty to 'operate in the public interest' and the FCC is merely trying to restore that standard.

Carr has said the country should have a 'trusted, respected news media, and we’re not there.'

ABC had accused the agency of a brazen attempt to chill its constitutionally protected free speech — and by extension, that of every media outlet in the country. The network’s July comments came in its latest filing to the agency, expressing its formal opposition to the FCC’s early review, launched in April, of eight ABC local broadcast licenses well before they expire." (our emphasis)

The "public interest" that Carr refers to is clearly meant to be the MF's interest.  ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been relentless in his satirization of the buffoonish MF.  The pressure tactics worked on Paramount during the merger with Trumpist David Ellison's Skydance Media, which was approved by the FCC after Stephen Colbert's CBS show was cancelled as an obvious favor to the MF. 

Late last year, the MF sued the BBC for $10 billion under a bogus claim that a BBC documentary misrepresented the MF's instigation of the January 6 riot, causing him economic damage.  The BBC now has the MF on the ropes by asserting its right to see the MF's business and financial records to argue whether he was damaged financially or not.  Pushing back against a bully and his acolytes is better than rolling over and handing him your lunch money.