AT&T/Direct TV deplatforms Newsmax

[Fishman15]

At midnight Tuesday, AT&T's DirecTV cut Newsmax's signal, immediately shutting the network off from more than 13 million customers of the satellite service, DirecTV Stream, and U-Verse.

This is the second time in the past year AT&T has moved to cancel a conservative channel, with DirecTV deplatforming OAN in April.

Despite Newsmax being the 4th highest-rated cable news channel in the nation, a top 20 cable news channel overall, and watched by 25 million Americans on cable alone, according to Nielsen, DirecTV said it was taking the step as a "cost-cutting" measure and would never pay Newsmax a cable license fee.

DirecTV pays cable license fees to all top 75 cable channels and to all 22 liberal news and information channels it carries. Almost all of these channels are paid hefty license fees significantly more than Newsmax was seeking — and despite the fact that most of the channels have much lower ratings than Newsmax.

"This is a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax," Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax said.

"The most extreme liberal channels, even with tiny ratings, get fees from AT&T's DirecTV, but Newsmax and OAN need to be deplatformed," Ruddy added.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ne...24/id/1105756/


First they came for OANN. Now it's Newsmax. Next will be FOX. If you value free speech, please consider dropping and/or contacting AT&T/Direct TV and let them know how you feel.

[brayar]

What do you expect?

ATT like all US media companies is run by a Jew. In this case it's "John Stankey" who, like Jon Stewart, has a fake Anglo name to disguise his identity.

Wikipedia even revised his page to try to hide the fact he's Jewish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...did=1101566521

[Mark1T]

ATT has a direct phone line to the WH like BlackRock.

[JayJ350]

Wasn't ATT the company that bought CNN right before they went woke?

Sounds like an antitrust situation.

[metroins]

Their shows suck anyway.

Go buy a pillow.

[Fishman15]

Their shows suck anyway.

Go buy a pillow.

Great bro, we'll mark you down as anti-free speech. Thanks for playing...

[georgeenoob]

The thing about Newsmax is I like how they're not even trying to hide behind being crazy unlike Fox.

I remember I was lol'ing for a half hour about this one segment:
The left are advocating having more sex with short people! Did you know that 1 in x amount of short people are psychopaths? That's right, democrats want to fill this nation with psychopaths! Hillary was 5'6!

Lmao.

[metroins]

Great bro, we'll mark you down as anti-free speech. Thanks for playing...

Private business and all that

[RIKTER]

Private business and all that

Your mom and pop ice cream store on the corner is a private business.

Multi national media conglomerates with ties directly to the White House etc is not a private business.

Twitter files and all that.

[ImpressiveGainz]

Private business and all that

"Private business"

Just waiting for another massive anti-trust breakup to happen. AT&T basically consolidated all the old Bell companies, needs to be dismantled yet again.

[metroins]

Your mom and pop ice cream store on the corner is a private business.

Multi national media conglomerates with ties directly to the White House etc is not a private business.

Twitter files and all that.

They are still private businesses......

[BullittEV]

Private business and all that

Then you've never heard of a utility monopoly, sad. Pretty common knowledge.

[Phil9]

Your mom and pop ice cream store on the corner is a private business.

Multi national media conglomerates with ties directly to the White House etc is not a private business.

Twitter files and all that.

Still a private business and not the federal government.

[JayJ350]

The thing about Newsmax is I like how they're not even trying to hide behind being crazy unlike Fox.

I remember I was lol'ing for a half hour about this one segment:
The left are advocating having more sex with short people! Did you know that 1 in x amount of short people are psychopaths? That's right, democrats want to fill this nation with psychopaths! Hillary was 5'6!

Lmao.

It's comments like this that remind me of how retarded the average democrat is.

[HurfDurf]

Who?

[HurfDurf]

Still a private business and not the federal government.

You'd think all these folks constantly screaming about the first amendment would at least understand how it works. But then inbreeding and fetal alcohol syndrome is still a thing.

[ImpressiveGainz]

You'd think all these folks constantly screaming about the first amendment would at least understand how it works. But then inbreeding and fetal alcohol syndrome is still a thing.

Imagine posting this and totally ignoring that things like the Affordable Connectivity Program and tons of other Federal subsidies are funneled into these "private businesses". Imagine calling people who point out the blatant hypocrisy and ludicrousness of such practices as suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome and inbreeding. At least I'm not a ****ing CCP AI shill.

[NYPat]

Great bro, we'll mark you down as anti-free speech. Thanks for playing...

I love when supporters of fake news screech about free speech. No one is stopping you from getting your fake news on Newsmax somewhere else.

And Newsmax pushed the Dominion voting machine CT crap and got sued just like Fox News. Funny how AT&T didn't take Fox News off though...

[brayar]

Imagine posting this and totally ignoring that things like the Affordable Connectivity Program and tons of other Federal subsidies are funneled into these "private businesses". Imagine calling people who point out the blatant hypocrisy and ludicrousness of such practices as suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome and inbreeding. At least I'm not a ****ing CCP AI shill.

Well said.

If a company receives government contracts and government subsidies, it should no longer be considered a private business.

Jews will keep telling you they are "private businesses" so that they can privatize the gains from the contracts/subsides while publicizing the losses via bailouts.

[BullittEV]

I love when supporters of fake news screech about free speech. No one is stopping you from getting your fake news on Newsmax somewhere else.

And Newsmax pushed the Dominion voting machine CT crap and got sued just like Fox News. Funny how AT&T didn't take Fox News off though...

"I only watch real news!! You all watch fake news! This is how the real world works!"

Lmfao, you crack me up, well done.

[NYPat]

"I only watch real news!! You all watch fake news! This is how the real world works!"

Lmfao, you crack me up, well done.

Did Newsmax promote the Dominion voting machine fake news? yes or no?

[BullittEV]

Did Newsmax promote the Dominion voting machine fake news? yes or no?

I have no idea, sounds like theyre just playing the same game as every other sleazy "news" organization. You just actually think theres a good vs evil dichotomy going on. I bet you think MSNBC and CNN are actually better than FOX or this Newsmax because it agrees with your world view.

[NYPat]

I have no idea, sounds like theyre just playing the same game as every other sleazy "news" organization. You just actually think theres a good vs evil dichotomy going on. I bet you think MSNBC and CNN are actually better than FOX or this Newsmax because it agrees with your world view.

No I think MSNBC and CNN are better than Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN because they don't peddle dangerous fake news like anti-vaccine rumors as real news and accuse Dominion of intentionally flipping votes for Trump to Biden.

And you have no idea they were peddling the Dominion fake news story yet here you are trying to lump MSNBC and CNN in with them as if they're even remotely the same. I'll refrain from jumping to conclusions as to why.

[brayar]

No I think MSNBC and CNN are better than Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN because they don't peddle dangerous fake news like anti-vaccine rumors as real news and accuse Dominion of intentionally flipping votes for Trump to Biden.

And you have no idea they were peddling the Dominion fake news story yet here you are trying to lump MSNBC and CNN in with them as if they're even remotely the same. I'll refrain from jumping to conclusions as to why.

Newsmax, OAN, and Fox News are Zionist and therefore pro Jew.

Notice how all media is pro Jew? Why is that the case?

[HurfDurf]

Newsmax, OAN, and Fox News are Zionist and therefore pro Jew.

Notice how all media is pro Jew? Why is that the case?

Calm down Hitler. We can handle this like gentleman.

[brayar]

Calm down Hitler. We can handle this like gentleman.

Well why do conservative and liberal media disagree on everything except that Jews are the good guys?

The same is true of Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

You ever wonder why this is the case?

[BullittEV]

No I think MSNBC and CNN are better than Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN because they don't peddle dangerous fake news like anti-vaccine rumors as real news and accuse Dominion of intentionally flipping votes for Trump to Biden.

And you have no idea they were peddling the Dominion fake news story yet here you are trying to lump MSNBC and CNN in with them as if they're even remotely the same. I'll refrain from jumping to conclusions as to why.

And yet you have no idea CNN and MSNBC are peddling fake news when they said vaccines stopped transmission or trump feeding fish wrong, bla bla bla. Youre the prime target demo for news organizations. That should register some sort of thought for you, but I know it doesn't.

youre like an NPC stuck in 2016. Get your software upgraded.

[NYPat]

And yet you have no idea CNN and MSNBC are peddling fake news when they said vaccines stopped transmission or trump feeding fish wrong, bla bla bla. Youre the prime target demo for news organizations. That should register some sort of thought for you, but I know it doesn't.

youre like an NPC stuck in 2016. Get your software upgraded.

The original vaccines did stop transmission of the original virus. Hell, it worked so well the entire planet tried to "re-open" all at once causing massive demand and Trumpflation.

But keep telling yourself that MSNBC and CNN are on the same level as Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, NY Post, Daily Mail, Project Veritas, and all the others so you can smugly sit back and make idiotic accusations like the one I just quoted.

Edit: And it's telling you keep coming after me while ignoring posts like the ones brayar has made itt..

[Bushmaster]

No I think MSNBC and CNN are better than Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN because they don't peddle dangerous fake news like anti-vaccine rumors as real news and accuse Dominion of intentionally flipping votes for Trump to Biden.

And you have no idea they were peddling the Dominion fake news story yet here you are trying to lump MSNBC and CNN in with them as if they're even remotely the same. I'll refrain from jumping to conclusions as to why.

I'll just leave this here for you Pat.

[NYPat]

I'll just leave this here for you Pat.

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Lmao it's cute the way you came swooping in to defend the chit right wing "news" sources I called out.