So I’m assuming that Sinclair will be demanding that Tucker apologize and donate and that the FCC will be threatening to cancel his podcast.
So I’m assuming that Sinclair will be demanding that Tucker apologize and donate and that the FCC will be threatening to cancel his podcast.
Correct. FCC threatens broadcast license. Sinclair superceeded the show. ABC network was threatened on two fronts and capitulated to save their jobs.
The reason this is a big deal is that this isn’t some kind of court of public opinion, like being fired for saying we should exterminate homeless people with lethal injection (oh wait), this is literally the president of the United States coercing censorship of a major broadcaster. Pure 1A violation.
It’s funny because if Trump had backchanneled this and kept his mouth shut this would be much harder to prove. But he just…he just said it on live TV.