There have been a dozen stories about "Trump's likely X" and "Trump eyeing Y for Z" with absolutely no interesting information or evidence other than their own personal fantasies.
This one is entirely based on an accusation that Carr made publicly about NBC violating the Equal Time rule which was absolutely true, and resulted in an immediate offer of time to Harris and Kaine's opponents, likely because Lorne Michaels had said explicitly in an interview a few months ago that he wouldn't be having any of the candidates on because of that rule.
> Carr was wrong about the Equal Time rule, media advocacy group Free Press said on November 3. The group pointed to an FCC fact sheet that says the rule "does not require a station to provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate."
Carr didn't say that a station was required to provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate.
> "Despite Carr's claim, there is no evidence that the network was trying to avoid the rules," Free Press said. "Broadcasters have no legal obligation to set aside broadcast time for opposing candidates, unless the candidates request it. Equal-opportunity requests are commonplace in the final days of a national election, and broadcasters typically honor them."
There's a "7 day rule" within the regulation, and the only reason for it is to thwart giving a favored candidate time immediately before the election so that the opposing candidates don't have time to react. This rule, repeatedly mentioned by Carr, goes completely unmentioned in this article.
> NBC did honor a request for equal time from the Trump campaign, giving him two free 60-second messages during NASCAR and NFL coverage.
NBC almost immediately reached out after Carr posted, and offered Trump and Cao time. This is how things are supposed to work. The "7 day rule" was still violated, but at least the NASCAR audience was an comparable audience. But the fact that Harris (and Kaine) got a completely produced and scripted segment on a comedy show meant to humanize them, and Trump (and underdog candidate Cao who had started to poll within a few points of Kaine in the last days of the campaign) had to whip together a pretaped ad a day before their respective elections is exactly what that rule was meant to avoid.
I'm sure Carr is shit, all Republicans who have been on the FCC have been shit, and most of the Democrats. But this is garbage, mostly recycled from some outfit called "Free Press" who I'm supposed to trust for no particular reason, and is not even meant to be read. It's meant to be a headline in social media feeds.
edit: please don't be suckered by the stream of garbage that's going to target you over the next few months. When Trump inevitably starts doing awful things, they're going to be completely obscured by the fact that people will have been shrieking for months about things they pretended he did.
This one is entirely based on an accusation that Carr made publicly about NBC violating the Equal Time rule which was absolutely true, and resulted in an immediate offer of time to Harris and Kaine's opponents, likely because Lorne Michaels had said explicitly in an interview a few months ago that he wouldn't be having any of the candidates on because of that rule.
> Carr was wrong about the Equal Time rule, media advocacy group Free Press said on November 3. The group pointed to an FCC fact sheet that says the rule "does not require a station to provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate."
Carr didn't say that a station was required to provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate.
> "Despite Carr's claim, there is no evidence that the network was trying to avoid the rules," Free Press said. "Broadcasters have no legal obligation to set aside broadcast time for opposing candidates, unless the candidates request it. Equal-opportunity requests are commonplace in the final days of a national election, and broadcasters typically honor them."
There's a "7 day rule" within the regulation, and the only reason for it is to thwart giving a favored candidate time immediately before the election so that the opposing candidates don't have time to react. This rule, repeatedly mentioned by Carr, goes completely unmentioned in this article.
> NBC did honor a request for equal time from the Trump campaign, giving him two free 60-second messages during NASCAR and NFL coverage.
NBC almost immediately reached out after Carr posted, and offered Trump and Cao time. This is how things are supposed to work. The "7 day rule" was still violated, but at least the NASCAR audience was an comparable audience. But the fact that Harris (and Kaine) got a completely produced and scripted segment on a comedy show meant to humanize them, and Trump (and underdog candidate Cao who had started to poll within a few points of Kaine in the last days of the campaign) had to whip together a pretaped ad a day before their respective elections is exactly what that rule was meant to avoid.
I'm sure Carr is shit, all Republicans who have been on the FCC have been shit, and most of the Democrats. But this is garbage, mostly recycled from some outfit called "Free Press" who I'm supposed to trust for no particular reason, and is not even meant to be read. It's meant to be a headline in social media feeds.
edit: please don't be suckered by the stream of garbage that's going to target you over the next few months. When Trump inevitably starts doing awful things, they're going to be completely obscured by the fact that people will have been shrieking for months about things they pretended he did.