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· Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 14:50:22

The argument made to me against using the sound bite wasn’t so much that it was in bad taste (though that was a concern) but that the FCC might fine individual stations that aired it.

My response was that if Trump’s own FCC would dare to fine a station for using an excerpt from a public speech made by Trump, that’s a legal fight we should be eager to have.

Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 15:31:31

@samlitzinger

So far it has only been fought occasionally on the airwaves, confronting politicians (in the loosest sense of the word) with their own words, and fact checking them when they deny having ever said some thing.

More journalists need to do this, and a legal action might make more journalists and their editors wake up.