CNN and NBC will both breathlessly cover the Trumpification of America—their anchors and field reporters squealing about how exciting it all is—right up until the moment when a Trump FCC that does not give one shit about the law, starts shutting down their facilities. Only then, when its way too late and they’ve lost their platform, will they realize that fascist takeovers aren’t a fucking game to be covered like celebrity dating drama.

I overheard a FOX broadcast last night while waiting for a pizza pickup in their lobby.

Holy crap that is awful. I remember it back in the GWB days and I don't recall it being nearly as bad as it was last night.

"Democrats don't want to understand you. They just want power." followed by cherrypicked video footage of out of context comments from some random person. "If the Democrats get in charge, they will outlaw jesus!" followed by more bad faith video footage where someone said Christianity doesn't belong in a courtroom setting.

It's like they have distilled down the essence of making your grandma scared and forcing her to vote or else her grand babies will literally get eaten alive because they weren't aborted.

They wouldn't cover his speech, but they'll all run this story about him complaining about that...

Which is effectively the same thing, and even better for his supporters because this will be spun as "corrupt media can't silence trump, he's too strong!"

If you're going to ignore a troll like trump, you have to commit. Giving in later because the troll keeps insulting you just makes it look like they were able to drag you into it.

Old man yells at cloud.

They're showing less of the train wreck than before and denying him some of the free coverage to which he feels entitled. The tantrum was inevitable.

Huh. I thought these types were bitching about "cancel culture" all the time, and donnie wants entire networks off the air because of his feelz.

Always projection. When the cons talk about snowflakes, they are some of the biggest snowflakes on the planet, all enthusiastic to vote for one of the biggest snowflakes in history.

We had better deal with this fascist cunt.

I want trump off air for being human garbage

Dictators gonna dictate.

More like "Tyrants gonna rant." Trump doesn't have the power to dictate the First Amendment away, at least not yet.

So he wants to limit freedom of the press and freedom of speech?

Sounds a lot like something a dictator would want.

Honestly, they did him a favor. They aired the beginning part. And in the beginning he was uncharacteristically on-message and gracious. The end got into his terribly unpopular policies.

I say fuck it. Air the rest. Let people be reminded about how terrifying he is.

Imagine looking up to this orange turd.

The best way to ensure he doesn't get elected is for him to piss off the corporations and I would say 2 big ones like this could do some damage to him. Keep running your mouth about stuff like that and see. Better yet demand fox news be taken off air, they might actually turn people against him.

Not showing a speech should be allowed.

Guy who routinely cry's about the mainstream media, continues to cry about the main stream media.

More at 11.

I could be wrong, but I believe it was a CBS executive who once said that covering Trump the way they do was absolutely terrible for democracy in this country and that he is a real danger to our way of life -- but they were still going to keep covering him anyway because covering him is absolutely great for their bottom line.