00:00Hey, you're a very obnoxious person.
00:04Berating reporters, accusing American news organizations of disloyalty to their country
00:09and threatening to remove networks licenses.
00:13The Trump administration is ramping up its attacks on the media over its coverage of the war in the Middle
00:18East.
00:19Last week, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseff used a Pentagon briefing to scold media outlets
00:25for what he deemed insufficiently positive coverage of the war.
00:29Going as far as making his own suggestions for headlines.
00:32Another example of a fake headline that I saw yesterday, war widening.
00:39Here's a real headline for you for an actual patriotic press.
00:43How about Iran shrinking, going underground?
00:47Meanwhile, top media regulator Brendan Carr, who was appointed by Donald Trump
00:51to the Federal Communications Commission last year, issued an explicit warning
00:55to television networks on social media.
00:58Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions, also known as the fake news,
01:04have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.
01:09A threat that Trump said he was so thrilled to see.
01:12The FCC does not regulate networks like CBS, NBC and ABC,
01:17but it does have the authority to reject licenses of individual affiliates of those networks
01:22when they come up for renewal.
01:24Cable networks such as CNN are not under the FCC's purview.
01:29Though for its critics, Carr's declaration is part of an intimidation campaign by Trump and his allies
01:35against the freedom of the press under the First Amendment.
01:38board at the power hadadow up of an inaudible 0051700.
01:38Let's do this.
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