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“Are you planning to continue carrying
Fox News,
Newsmax, and
OANN [fill in the platform] on TV both now and beyond any contract renewal date? If so, why?” part of the questionnaire from Eshoo and McNerney reads.
Since there is apparently nothing better for politicians to do than try to implement a nationwide Ministry of Truth for the masses, this letter from Eshoo and McNerney is making the rounds, trying to pressure media platforms to censor certain media content mounts.
“What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?” another question reads.
So, What About This Documentary?
The report gives few specifics about the actual production. But the details that are provided match up with a film that aired on One America News Network, an eight-year-old channel with a largely conservative slant and until recently a relatively small audience.
During the Trump administration, the channel was a cheerleader for many administration policies, and Trump often favored the channel over other conservative-leaning U.S. networks like Fox.
On January 21, the channel aired a one-hour video called The Ukraine Hoax hosted by a Republican operative named Michael Caputo.
Caputo was a longtime Republican activist who helped Trump s 2016 presidential campaign. Long before that, he spent years working in Russia, first for the U.S. Agency for International Development and then starting his own public relations company. In 2000, he was hired by state-controlled Gazprom-Media to try and improve Putin s image in the United States.
The most puzzling aspect of Mr. Biden's reluctance to engage directly with the national press is that he has developed a very effective media style. It's time Mr. Biden start meeting regularly with the press.