WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.027 --> 00:00:04.969 Welcome to Worldview Matters. 2 00:00:05.409 --> 00:00:07.331 Discussing controversial issues. 3 00:00:07.892 --> 00:00:09.414 Discerning current events. 4 00:00:10.334 --> 00:00:12.457 Defending biblical Christianity. 5 00:00:13.177 --> 00:00:13.878 No topic. 6 00:00:14.459 --> 00:00:15.079 Off limits. 7 00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:19.284 And now, here's your host, David Fiorazzo. 8 00:00:20.388 --> 00:00:22.429 Welcome friends, family, and Christ. 9 00:00:22.889 --> 00:00:25.229 Thank you so much for tuning in, your support and your prayers. 10 00:00:25.249 --> 00:00:26.410 We appreciate you guys. 11 00:00:27.470 --> 00:00:31.131 Another important topic today, we're going back to the subject of media. 12 00:00:31.891 --> 00:00:39.693 And there's just so much work to be done in this country when it comes to fighting the lies, deception, and bias of the media. 13 00:00:40.393 --> 00:00:42.934 of most media outlets. 14 00:00:42.994 --> 00:00:44.135 And I'm not exaggerating. 15 00:00:44.275 --> 00:00:47.256 So we've been at this for many, many decades trying to raise awareness. 16 00:00:47.336 --> 00:00:48.956 And there's some great organizations. 17 00:00:49.237 --> 00:00:51.477 One today I want to point you back to. 18 00:00:52.258 --> 00:00:57.180 And if you're not following the Media Research Center, please do. 19 00:00:57.260 --> 00:01:02.582 It's MRC.org, MRC.org. 20 00:01:02.682 --> 00:01:04.623 And I want to point you to NewsBusters.org. 21 00:01:05.743 --> 00:01:08.686 Another offshoot of the Media Research Center. 22 00:01:08.786 --> 00:01:10.968 And Nicholas Fondacaro, he's back with us. 23 00:01:11.369 --> 00:01:14.712 He works for the Newsbusters arm of Media Research Center. 24 00:01:14.752 --> 00:01:16.334 Thank you so much for all you do, brother. 25 00:01:16.754 --> 00:01:17.635 Good to see you again. 26 00:01:17.655 --> 00:01:19.677 Good to see you too again, David. 27 00:01:20.261 --> 00:01:22.283 Yeah, a lot of fun things to talk about. 28 00:01:22.583 --> 00:01:41.320 Fun, I say, jokingly, because it does get people angry because of the bias and the leftist control of practically every, you know, the big tech, media, news, education in our country. 29 00:01:41.340 --> 00:01:44.463 It just doesn't seem like people are getting the truth out. 30 00:01:45.043 --> 00:01:47.364 Some are, but that wouldn't be the majority. 31 00:01:47.745 --> 00:01:53.528 So we're thankful for what you do, but a lot of people just really want to hear more about what you guys are doing. 32 00:01:53.568 --> 00:01:56.569 So I know this is not an article that you wrote. 33 00:01:56.589 --> 00:02:00.411 We're going to get to a few that you put out, and I love talking about The View. 34 00:02:01.092 --> 00:02:03.153 And, man, I hope they lose their status. 35 00:02:03.173 --> 00:02:04.894 They are not a bonafide news program. 36 00:02:04.914 --> 00:02:05.594 That's a joke. 37 00:02:05.954 --> 00:02:06.995 But anyway, we'll get to that. 38 00:02:07.795 --> 00:02:15.139 Let's talk about what is on people's radar recently, and that's the bad doctor, Anthony Fauci. 39 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.401 And because of his pardon, it just doesn't seem like there's going to be any justice. 40 00:02:20.581 --> 00:02:25.603 But just recently, the Senate voted eight to five to hold him in contempt. 41 00:02:25.724 --> 00:02:28.645 Can you tell us more about that and where you think this might go? 42 00:02:30.413 --> 00:02:42.083 Yeah, so hopefully the DOJ will move on this so the American people can at least get some sort of justice, some sort of accountability from him, especially with what's coming out through the diary and stuff like this. 43 00:02:42.103 --> 00:02:51.812 But it almost seems like possibly because of, as you mentioned, the pardon, it might be more of like an Al Capone situation where they'll get him on something else and, you 44 00:02:52.232 --> 00:02:57.933 all of the major crimes will just sort of be sort of still out there, but get hit, like with Al Capone, get him on tax evasion. 45 00:02:58.213 --> 00:03:00.333 With this, it's more of like a contempt of Congress. 46 00:03:01.574 --> 00:03:04.274 And honestly, it seems to be like, this one can really stick. 47 00:03:04.354 --> 00:03:09.215 Like when you're pleading the fifth, it needs to be about stuff that could possibly incriminate you. 48 00:03:09.235 --> 00:03:13.996 But he was pleading the fifth to stuff that like, like what color's the carpet? 49 00:03:14.376 --> 00:03:15.056 Like what's your name? 50 00:03:15.076 --> 00:03:19.177 Like all this other stuff that he basically cannot plead the fifth for. 51 00:03:20.704 --> 00:03:29.815 So let's go to the article over at Newsbusters, how the elitist media and news apps rushed to Fauci's defense. 52 00:03:30.216 --> 00:03:36.644 Before we just kind of mention a few points from the article and anything else you want to bring out, Nick, why do you think it is? 53 00:03:36.664 --> 00:03:37.104 Do you think... 54 00:03:38.346 --> 00:03:42.289 the left just feels like they're obligated to protect him no matter what? 55 00:03:42.509 --> 00:03:56.420 Do you think they're all still believing that during COVID, everything that was put out by Fauci and the government was, you know, the masks, social distancing, the vaccines, which now we're learning so much about the injuries and deaths. 56 00:03:57.180 --> 00:04:00.603 Do they still have to double down and defend him? 57 00:04:00.683 --> 00:04:02.004 I guess apparently they do. 58 00:04:02.104 --> 00:04:02.825 What are your thoughts? 59 00:04:02.845 --> 00:04:03.025 Yeah. 60 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:09.655 Yeah, I do think that they have to double down and defend him because they hitched their wagons to him during all of this, right? 61 00:04:10.416 --> 00:04:22.947 He became the face of obviously the briefings and stuff like that, but he became, through them, he became the counter to Trump when Trump would do the press briefings and say something. 62 00:04:23.247 --> 00:04:29.433 They would all run to him to get the counter, make him be the face of the science and like I am the science and all that. 63 00:04:30.113 --> 00:04:42.398 and basically tried to put, they made him like their counterpoint to Trump and the people who were asking legitimate questions about the quote unquote science, about like social distancing, keeping kids out of schools. 64 00:04:42.778 --> 00:04:55.302 And now they have to, because they hitch their credibility to him, they now have to step in and sort of pretend that everything that he was preaching during this time and recommending was 100% correct way to go. 65 00:04:56.903 --> 00:05:15.998 even though a lot of them now you'll have occasionally an admittance of like, oh yeah, we probably shouldn't have kept the schools closed, an admittance that because the schools were closed, you had kids lose retention and harm their social development, not to mention all the economic damage that was done with this. 66 00:05:16.738 --> 00:05:21.765 And so now they have to, because their reputations were hitched to this, they have to defend him. 67 00:05:22.085 --> 00:05:31.037 And a point that I sort of saw during all of this, right, is when you have a secular media, they have to find a savior in a fallible, prideful man. 68 00:05:31.558 --> 00:05:33.761 And that was who they connected their wagon to. 69 00:05:34.497 --> 00:05:36.800 Wow, you're exactly right. 70 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:38.222 They've got to find a savior. 71 00:05:38.402 --> 00:05:42.507 Man, they just supported him no matter what. 72 00:05:42.527 --> 00:05:46.632 And some of them were probably going, I can't believe he said that, but I got to support him. 73 00:05:47.153 --> 00:05:48.715 So let's go to this article. 74 00:05:48.835 --> 00:05:51.358 It says the big three networks... 75 00:05:52.279 --> 00:06:06.300 And news apps largely ignored bombshell revelations from his pandemic era diaries that were released by Senator Rand Paul and a media research center analysis of the coverage. 76 00:06:07.441 --> 00:06:18.448 We're not surprised those who have been paying attention and are informed, which is not by any stretch the majority of Americans or citizens, but we understand, but we're still frustrated by it. 77 00:06:19.608 --> 00:06:28.654 ABC, Apple News, CBS, Google News, MSN, and NBC found very little in terms of illuminating diary details, which included... 78 00:06:29.494 --> 00:06:34.061 Fauci's recommendations that destroyed the lives of millions, and we could go on. 79 00:06:34.141 --> 00:06:35.443 It's just a travesty. 80 00:06:35.463 --> 00:06:43.634 So, Nick, talk about this analysis and how out of whack it is, out of balance, unfortunately. 81 00:06:44.666 --> 00:06:59.747 Yeah, so basically you had Senator Rand Paul drop the diary on Saturday night basically, like Friday night or Saturday, basically give people enough time to go through it a few days ahead of the hearing to get a preview of sort of like the hard hitting things that he was going to get asked. 82 00:07:00.548 --> 00:07:17.039 ahead of time and basically just the media, even though this was out there and it was blowing up on social media, you had like some of the media folks sort of rushing to his defense on X, on Blue Sky, and Instagram, all these different social media apps. 83 00:07:17.979 --> 00:07:22.803 But when it came to their morning and evening newscasts, like on ABC, CBS, NBC, 84 00:07:23.603 --> 00:07:25.085 they didn't want to touch it at all. 85 00:07:25.385 --> 00:07:29.069 So you basically had them ignoring it basically until the hearing happened. 86 00:07:29.089 --> 00:07:35.075 And then suddenly this hearing that just happened to pop up out of nowhere, barely giving even a run up to it. 87 00:07:35.155 --> 00:07:46.647 So it just so for their viewers who may just only get home and watch ABC Nightly News when they're eating dinner, this was they were basically blindsided by this until the hearing happened. 88 00:07:47.167 --> 00:07:55.228 And then once it happened, they only, they covered it for a combined like 27 minutes and I believe it's, yeah, but basically a combined 27 minutes. 89 00:07:55.868 --> 00:08:01.089 And essentially they, they just only covered it after the hearing happened. 90 00:08:01.509 --> 00:08:04.150 And even then it was, oh, Republicans are pouncing on him. 91 00:08:04.430 --> 00:08:05.250 They're attacking him. 92 00:08:05.270 --> 00:08:15.792 They're needling him, basically doing it as like him facing down the lions in the arena of like the Republicans trying to maul him through rancor and discourse. 93 00:08:16.752 --> 00:08:22.175 So I want to quote Media Research Center president David Bozell, who's quoted in this article. 94 00:08:22.215 --> 00:08:27.537 The Fauci diaries should have been one of the biggest stories of the year. 95 00:08:28.378 --> 00:08:37.783 Instead of investigating what the diaries revealed, the elitist media and the news apps went into full-blown protection mode. 96 00:08:38.183 --> 00:08:42.165 And they downplayed the bombshell disclosures. 97 00:08:42.725 --> 00:08:47.390 Nick, I'm sure they would have done the same if that was if that was Trump's diaries, right? 98 00:08:48.411 --> 00:08:49.892 Oh, absolutely not. 99 00:08:49.932 --> 00:09:00.382 These were the same people who were sort of salivating when his financial disclosures were leaked from the IRS to The New York Times and they were quick to publish articles. 100 00:09:00.562 --> 00:09:03.764 This was basically his private materials. 101 00:09:04.124 --> 00:09:08.946 This was Fauci's public materials, basically because they were owned by the federal government. 102 00:09:08.966 --> 00:09:14.809 These notes were basically kept on his government issued devices, his computer. 103 00:09:14.909 --> 00:09:20.372 Now I think we're about to get a bit more of those from him because apparently I saw some reports that the committee now has. 104 00:09:20.812 --> 00:09:22.994 the government issue iPhone that he was given. 105 00:09:23.054 --> 00:09:40.108 So we're probably going to get some more messages that were being sent, like the exact messages that were being sent between him and a lot of these media folks who, for instance, you had Jake Tapper, who Fauci in his diary was admitting that he was feeding him questions to be hostile to another member of, I believe, uh, 106 00:09:40.769 --> 00:09:51.448 one of the other members of the joint task force who they were apparently butting heads behind the scenes and he was feeding Foushi this hostile line of attack so that way he can be grilled on it in public. 107 00:09:52.149 --> 00:09:52.590 Wow. 108 00:09:53.802 --> 00:09:54.643 So corrupt. 109 00:09:54.843 --> 00:10:11.470 And I just want to wrap this up before we get to a couple of your articles, Nick, at Newsbusters by saying, you know, World News Tonight and Good Morning America boasted of Fauci as the man millions of Americans turned to for answers. 110 00:10:12.150 --> 00:10:20.977 during COVID, the COVID pandemic, and now they're saying, well, now he's being needled by Republicans, even though he served in government for 54 years and has testified. 111 00:10:22.198 --> 00:10:31.785 Even GMA co-host George Snuffleupagus, who, you know, put in his two cents, he's been a political hack for way too many years. 112 00:10:32.445 --> 00:10:38.550 And he said, oh, it's just the signs of the times that a hearing could be as partisan as it gets. 113 00:10:38.730 --> 00:10:39.070 Yeah. 114 00:10:39.130 --> 00:10:47.413 Well, they're they're not they're pointing the finger, but they're not looking at themselves and how they report on any Republican in politics or especially Trump. 115 00:10:48.473 --> 00:10:48.953 Oh, exactly. 116 00:10:48.993 --> 00:10:54.375 This is from the guy who ended up having getting ABC sued for defamation. 117 00:10:54.755 --> 00:11:02.378 And then the network had to settle it because of him and his big mouth saying nasty stuff about Trump being found guilty of rape and all that stuff. 118 00:11:03.738 --> 00:11:10.744 This is a guy who also was a Bill Clinton White House aide, with all of those hearings and stuff like that. 119 00:11:10.764 --> 00:11:14.346 So basically, it's really rich for Stephanopoulos to sort of mention this. 120 00:11:14.366 --> 00:11:20.031 And I should also note about the news apps, basically, you had Apple News, Google News, and MSN. 121 00:11:20.311 --> 00:11:26.055 They had to write basically immediately in the hour or so after the hearing happened. 122 00:11:26.575 --> 00:11:29.338 They only had about 10 stories on the hearing, so they kind of like... 123 00:11:29.958 --> 00:11:34.442 kept the hearing tamped down, there was one Fox News citation that they were pushing. 124 00:11:34.462 --> 00:11:36.805 I believe it was Google News was pushing to its readers. 125 00:11:37.305 --> 00:11:43.411 But then after about an hour after the hearing, it actually dropped to the very bottom of the list where people could barely find it. 126 00:11:43.471 --> 00:11:49.157 So this is sort of how even the critical stories that are going out there, they'll put them out there for a little bit. 127 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:55.364 organizations like News Busters and the Media Research Center can be like, oh, look, there is a story about it. 128 00:11:55.645 --> 00:12:01.773 And then once we put out an initial report about the coverage, they can just pull that down and then they're back to business as usual. 129 00:12:02.033 --> 00:12:04.616 But we're on to them and we're able to find it when they move it. 130 00:12:05.578 --> 00:12:06.279 That's the game. 131 00:12:06.619 --> 00:12:07.660 That's the game, friends. 132 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:18.307 People, I think Americans no longer remember the principles of journalism from back in the day, and it's just such a disappointment. 133 00:12:18.487 --> 00:12:22.550 I mean, that's a lack of a better word, but let's go to one of your articles here. 134 00:12:22.570 --> 00:12:24.291 It's going by quickly today. 135 00:12:24.672 --> 00:12:32.697 We love talking about The View, and by the way, over on your Facebook page at Media Research Center, I want to quote the theologian Joy Behar, 136 00:12:33.778 --> 00:12:37.501 who said, you're not voting for Republicans, you're voting for a cult. 137 00:12:37.941 --> 00:12:39.602 Now, she said that a couple years ago. 138 00:12:39.662 --> 00:12:54.912 But, I mean, just the fact that they actually think they're a news show, the view, the liberal leftist Democrat socialist view, they don't share views, plural. 139 00:12:55.272 --> 00:12:56.453 I mean, just look at the guests. 140 00:12:56.493 --> 00:12:58.334 You've done a lot of stories on this, Nick. 141 00:12:58.714 --> 00:13:02.437 In this case, it's the liberal echo chamber, ABC's The View. 142 00:13:03.758 --> 00:13:11.089 The number of conservative guests swells to five compared to 87 liberals. 143 00:13:11.129 --> 00:13:17.779 Go ahead and walk us through this for people that maybe have not been paying attention to just how out of balance this is. 144 00:13:18.855 --> 00:13:28.678 Yeah, so basically they had 87 Democrat guests that had expressed a liberal opinion when politics had come up in during the course of a conversation with the guests. 145 00:13:28.838 --> 00:13:31.119 16 of those were Democratic politicians. 146 00:13:31.459 --> 00:13:38.541 The rest of them were, there were also two Supreme Court justices, Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. 147 00:13:38.561 --> 00:13:42.362 So basically two of the three liberal Supreme Court justices. 148 00:13:42.402 --> 00:13:44.783 I believe they were both pushing children's books. 149 00:13:45.503 --> 00:13:53.152 And basically then for the Republican side or the conservative side, you had somebody who isn't really a conservative. 150 00:13:53.773 --> 00:14:02.424 It was actress Cheryl Hines, who because her husband is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they basically used her as a punching bag in lieu of having her husband on the show. 151 00:14:02.824 --> 00:14:07.625 So basically she was defending her husband and Trump's policies with make America healthy again. 152 00:14:08.065 --> 00:14:13.947 So she essentially became conservative because she was defending her husband's politics and thus Trump's politics. 153 00:14:14.447 --> 00:14:19.688 Then you had MTG who was on three times, but only one of her appearances were counted as conservative. 154 00:14:19.768 --> 00:14:23.869 That was before she sort of made her switch to attacking Trump and Republicans. 155 00:14:23.929 --> 00:14:26.930 They basically had her on so she can attack Republicans. 156 00:14:28.050 --> 00:14:31.873 Two of the three times they were actually trying to court her to become a Democrat for them. 157 00:14:32.693 --> 00:14:34.174 And then you had Spencer Pratt. 158 00:14:34.594 --> 00:14:35.255 And then J.D. 159 00:14:35.295 --> 00:14:39.437 Vance was the most high profile Republican that they had on the show. 160 00:14:40.418 --> 00:14:44.720 So just just putting up this graphic, 87 to 5. 161 00:14:45.181 --> 00:14:51.044 And I like the word you said is swelled, swelled to five conservative guests. 162 00:14:51.064 --> 00:14:56.327 Let me quote the MRC president, David Bozell, again. 163 00:14:57.668 --> 00:15:02.173 The guest ratio proves the show is not diverse at all. 164 00:15:02.874 --> 00:15:05.797 It's a Democrat Socialist Party infomercial. 165 00:15:06.178 --> 00:15:07.680 And friends, every show is. 166 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:08.360 I don't watch it. 167 00:15:08.420 --> 00:15:12.745 I hope and pray if you're Christian, conservative, patriotic, Republican. 168 00:15:12.765 --> 00:15:14.928 I mean, maybe you want to watch it so you have ammo. 169 00:15:15.869 --> 00:15:17.811 But don't waste your time. 170 00:15:18.192 --> 00:15:21.535 I hope you're not supporting or watching the view. 171 00:15:21.575 --> 00:15:23.478 But but so what's going to happen? 172 00:15:23.958 --> 00:15:28.463 There's I think I read sometime there's something coming up in the next couple of weeks. 173 00:15:28.944 --> 00:15:29.605 There's a decision. 174 00:15:29.625 --> 00:15:31.026 But was it by the FCC? 175 00:15:31.106 --> 00:15:32.108 What's going on with that? 176 00:15:32.870 --> 00:15:36.972 Yeah, so there's a decision from the FCC coming up in the next few weeks. 177 00:15:36.992 --> 00:15:45.017 There's some rumors that some other publications have sort of put out there about that it seems like they're gonna be possibly ruling against the view. 178 00:15:45.357 --> 00:15:58.745 But basically, and we put in, us here at the MRC and newsbusters, we put in as a part of public comment, believe it was over 20, over 2000 pieces of evidence basically to show the FCC, hey, here are 179 00:15:59.545 --> 00:16:15.117 instances where the view was essentially breaking ABC's license and basically showing that this is not a news program because they are engaging in electioneering where they have openly told their viewers to go vote for Democrats if you want accountability for Trump and Republicans. 180 00:16:15.697 --> 00:16:23.423 Numerous instances, basically, like as we've been getting closer to the midterms, they have ramped up their electioneering before they went on their summer hiatus. 181 00:16:24.123 --> 00:16:25.984 And that's one of the biggest violations. 182 00:16:26.144 --> 00:16:44.649 And then we show how, hey, they're engaging in disinformation where they're literally just making up information like the Holocaust not being about race or claiming Trump and Republicans get rich off of mass shootings or claiming that Trump is going to outlaw. 183 00:16:44.949 --> 00:16:50.131 And essentially part of their electioneering is misinformation as well, where leading up to the last presidential election. 184 00:16:50.511 --> 00:17:02.194 You had Whoopi claiming that Trump was running on a position on a policy platform of breaking up interracial marriages, deporting the minority, and then redistributing the white spouse to somebody else. 185 00:17:03.074 --> 00:17:14.677 And then basically showing, hey, this show has also justified or promoted political violence because you had Sonny Hassen saying the Democrats needed to be willing to fight and die for their rights. 186 00:17:15.357 --> 00:17:29.207 And then some of their other stuff where like they're sort of like playing footsie with the Luigi Mangione and sort of refusing to publicly refusing to tone down their rhetoric after the assassination, the first two assassination attempts against Trump. 187 00:17:30.357 --> 00:17:40.182 So before we get, I want to touch on another article you wrote, The MRC Strikes Back at ABC Disney, Pushes for Denial of License Renewals. 188 00:17:40.362 --> 00:17:41.642 That's one that I want to touch on. 189 00:17:41.682 --> 00:17:45.584 But talk to us about all the leftist organizations. 190 00:17:45.884 --> 00:17:46.645 You say... 191 00:17:48.065 --> 00:17:53.668 a letter of support was signed by a slew of leftist organizations and delivered to Disney. 192 00:17:54.488 --> 00:18:00.551 I mean, we should just look at who supports them and kind of understand how this battle is so divisive. 193 00:18:01.871 --> 00:18:13.496 Yeah, so basically part of the commenting system with the FCC is any organization, they can put in their two cents, file a legal brief, point to any sort of like legal arguments and stuff like that. 194 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.722 Each individual one is escaping me at the moment. 195 00:18:21.062 --> 00:18:27.609 But basically, they all signed on to a letter saying that, oh, this is a violation of ABC and Disney's First Amendment rights. 196 00:18:27.889 --> 00:18:39.782 This is an example of the FCC doing Trump's bidding and being retaliatory against the network for criticisms that he's received from Jimmy Kimmel, The View, other people on the show. 197 00:18:40.222 --> 00:18:58.760 But the only problem is they never address, even ABC in their own reply, never address the evidence that we present of this electioneering, of this promotion of disinformation or misinformation, the promotion of and justification of political violence. 198 00:18:59.060 --> 00:19:01.182 They also, they just sort of say like, oh, we've made... 199 00:19:01.962 --> 00:19:05.905 these organizations that are against us have sort of pointed to a few mistakes. 200 00:19:06.146 --> 00:19:13.551 They don't amount to anything, even though we have this absolute mountain of evidence of how it is that they conduct their news programs. 201 00:19:13.892 --> 00:19:16.594 And a lot, all of it is a violation of their license. 202 00:19:16.934 --> 00:19:17.434 Jeez. 203 00:19:18.475 --> 00:19:19.136 Oh my goodness. 204 00:19:19.176 --> 00:19:21.357 There's so much, but let's just mention a few of these. 205 00:19:21.417 --> 00:19:22.919 Obviously the ACLU. 206 00:19:23.059 --> 00:19:25.160 Oh my goodness. 207 00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:26.441 Communist organization. 208 00:19:27.802 --> 00:19:28.563 What is the... 209 00:19:31.129 --> 00:19:34.674 LGBT tech, the Trevor Project, my goodness. 210 00:19:34.914 --> 00:19:38.399 What is the National Coalition Against Censorship? 211 00:19:39.100 --> 00:19:43.547 It sounds good, but I think they're coming from the wrong side, right? 212 00:19:44.348 --> 00:19:44.909 Yeah, I can imagine. 213 00:19:44.909 --> 00:20:04.821 I imagine a lot of these are places that will say they're nonpartisan or non-biased, but a lot of them are just stepping into defending because they're not addressing any of our arguments, especially the legal argument of, essentially ABC is arguing that they have squatters' rights, essentially arguing that they have squatters' rights to the bandwidth that they have been permitted with their licenses. 214 00:20:04.841 --> 00:20:09.924 And basically these are our airwaves, this band of the spectrum, and there's nothing you can do about it. 215 00:20:10.064 --> 00:20:11.145 It's ours, but it's not. 216 00:20:11.225 --> 00:20:12.385 It's the public airwaves. 217 00:20:13.646 --> 00:20:24.311 And as part of their license, they had to agree to being fair balance, not pushing, not doing electioneering, not be a platform for one party over another. 218 00:20:24.571 --> 00:20:31.194 This isn't necessarily, because they're claiming that this is about like the fairness doctrine, which is something we're not advocating for. 219 00:20:31.555 --> 00:20:36.137 We're basically saying, it's like, hey, you guys have become a platform, not just about hating Trump. 220 00:20:36.337 --> 00:20:42.540 And even though they do a lot of that, it is about promoting one party, being a party media outlet 221 00:20:43.080 --> 00:20:49.524 over giving what is in the best public interest, especially when it comes to not covering certain stories. 222 00:20:49.564 --> 00:20:55.888 And that's another thing that we cover here at News Busters a lot, is the stuff that they don't cover when it comes to bias by omission. 223 00:20:56.308 --> 00:21:03.152 And that is when they are not acting in the best public interest, but they're acting in the best interest of Democrats in trying to help them get elected. 224 00:21:03.941 --> 00:21:15.064 I'm glad you brought bias by omission is very important because this is just as just as much a battle of what the liberal outlets do not talk about. 225 00:21:15.144 --> 00:21:27.008 If it reflects negatively on a Democrat or a socialist or radical, they're not going to cover that or maybe give it a few minutes as opposed to if it was a negative story on Trump or Republican conservative. 226 00:21:27.028 --> 00:21:27.728 Yeah. 227 00:21:28.488 --> 00:21:29.689 Let's talk about this. 228 00:21:29.749 --> 00:21:30.209 Explain. 229 00:21:30.249 --> 00:21:31.870 You mentioned the fairness doctrine. 230 00:21:31.890 --> 00:21:36.513 I don't want to skim over that because we heard the battle about that several years ago. 231 00:21:37.553 --> 00:21:39.675 And could you explain it again? 232 00:21:39.695 --> 00:21:40.275 It sounds good. 233 00:21:40.675 --> 00:21:41.536 The fairness doctrine. 234 00:21:41.556 --> 00:21:44.037 But please explain a little bit more about that. 235 00:21:44.077 --> 00:21:44.998 Why that's important. 236 00:21:45.977 --> 00:21:59.207 Yeah, so a lot of that basically has to do with is making sure that you have, it sometimes is tied to equal time, which that's its own thing, but that has to do with a program that is not a news related. 237 00:21:59.227 --> 00:22:02.369 So basically Jimmy Kimmel, for instance, would fall under equal time. 238 00:22:02.389 --> 00:22:06.252 And that's some of the arguments that we're arguing for the view that they are not a news program. 239 00:22:07.573 --> 00:22:13.836 It is not just that they are covering stuff that just happens to be politics and they wouldn't have to show equal time. 240 00:22:13.876 --> 00:22:25.680 But it's it's this this doctrine of you need to manipulate your programming in a way that is beneficial, but it's it's not implying that they need to show. 241 00:22:28.328 --> 00:22:31.050 that they need to also become a platform for Republicans. 242 00:22:31.110 --> 00:22:33.772 It's basically just saying, hey, you guys need to cover this fairly. 243 00:22:33.792 --> 00:22:47.403 You're not supposed to cover one side as becoming, like I mentioned, essentially become a Democratic media outlet and be their basically publicity arm like ABC has become. 244 00:22:48.244 --> 00:22:58.727 And this is why we're trying to get the FCC to be like, hey, there are eight ABC owned affiliates that their licenses are up for early renewal that you guys have put forward here. 245 00:22:59.047 --> 00:23:09.910 And you guys should not be essentially renewing those licenses because they are they are breaking their their vow to the American people when they agree to their license. 246 00:23:11.090 --> 00:23:17.678 I know they are breaking their vow, breaking the rules, going against what they're supposed to be doing. 247 00:23:18.659 --> 00:23:20.801 Ultimately, Nick, I mean, this is speculation. 248 00:23:20.821 --> 00:23:21.942 Do you think it's going to matter? 249 00:23:21.962 --> 00:23:31.613 And I want to talk a little bit more about how the Media Research Center is striking back, according to your article that just came out, you know, August 5th. 250 00:23:32.254 --> 00:23:35.497 But what do you see happening? 251 00:23:35.517 --> 00:23:37.298 You've been at this for a long time. 252 00:23:38.859 --> 00:23:40.801 Will there be any incremental progress? 253 00:23:40.841 --> 00:23:42.542 Will there be a slap on the wrist? 254 00:23:42.823 --> 00:23:44.204 How do you see this playing out? 255 00:23:44.244 --> 00:23:45.485 If you can speculate for us. 256 00:23:47.428 --> 00:24:05.501 I'd be hopeful that obviously since we're pushing so hard on this, I'm hopeful that there will be some sort of serious reprimand here, either revoking the licenses outright or trying to get them to be like, hey, here are some ways that you guys need or at least hold up our evidence to them and force them to answer it. 257 00:24:05.761 --> 00:24:13.587 Because when they issued their reply to it, they never actually addressed really any of our arguments to be like, this is the examples of you doing electioneering. 258 00:24:13.867 --> 00:24:15.568 How do you explain your your 259 00:24:16.649 --> 00:24:30.477 Bonafi news program the view telling people to vote for Democrats So there needs to be at least some effort to have ABC on the record to address our evidence Or at least the very chance give them an opportunity to correct themselves. 260 00:24:30.517 --> 00:24:31.258 I think that might be a 261 00:24:32.058 --> 00:24:46.047 possibly the most likely outcome is them giving an opportunity to correct themselves, and then possibly in the future being like, well, you guys didn't reel yourselves in, so now we're going to actually give you guys a good thump and refuse to renew these licenses. 262 00:24:46.447 --> 00:24:49.589 I think out of the two different things that are happening simultaneously, 263 00:24:52.511 --> 00:24:58.053 I do believe that The View will likely lose their status as bona fide news. 264 00:24:58.353 --> 00:25:13.118 And that could actually make a pretty good argument for getting rid of their licenses because it shows that ABC was not operating in good faith when in 2014, basically, they said that The View was bona fide news. 265 00:25:13.138 --> 00:25:18.120 So in this basically 12 years, ABC was not operating in good faith and was breaking their license. 266 00:25:18.860 --> 00:25:19.641 What a joke. 267 00:25:20.201 --> 00:25:22.563 The View, bonafide news, it is a joke. 268 00:25:23.103 --> 00:25:26.825 It's comedy or entertainment or whatever, but it is definitely one sided. 269 00:25:26.845 --> 00:25:35.531 I want to just quote briefly from the article, friends, and you can go to News Busters and look it up how they're pushing for denial of license renewals. 270 00:25:35.551 --> 00:25:39.413 The MRC petition documents a repeated statement. 271 00:25:39.593 --> 00:25:55.177 Pattern of conduct relevant to renewal, including direct partisan electioneering, as Nick mentioned, dissemination of misinformation and broadcasts minimizing or appearing to justify political violence. 272 00:25:55.197 --> 00:26:00.538 This has been a problem way before the Charlie Kirk assassination, way before the assassination attempts on Trump. 273 00:26:00.858 --> 00:26:04.799 Just the rhetoric, the rhetoric hasn't changed, even though we've had these protests. 274 00:26:04.919 --> 00:26:17.054 assassinations or attempts anyway the rhetoric hasn't changed so uh nick minute and a half left it went by fast what do you have coming up what else are you writing about preparing to uh research and talk about 275 00:26:17.985 --> 00:26:21.408 Yeah, we're keeping a close eye obviously on the ABC aspects of this. 276 00:26:21.468 --> 00:26:34.560 And then we're also still waiting for, probably your viewers know that I've been covering the defamation cases of Zachary Young, Navy's veteran and former CIA officer Zachary Young, against multiple media outlets. 277 00:26:34.580 --> 00:26:39.145 We still have an appeal waiting against his appeal against Puck News. 278 00:26:40.025 --> 00:26:45.207 basically waiting to see what the Florida First District Court of Appeals will say about his defamation case against them. 279 00:26:46.207 --> 00:26:49.368 It's been out for a bit over a month now, month, month and a half, I believe. 280 00:26:49.988 --> 00:26:51.169 So we're still waiting on that. 281 00:26:51.189 --> 00:26:54.770 I think the fact that it's taken this long might show some good signs for him on that one. 282 00:26:56.044 --> 00:27:02.246 So I see you're doing a lot of great work and over on the main site, MRC.org. 283 00:27:04.067 --> 00:27:08.108 Where did I see that there's a challenging match going on? 284 00:27:09.148 --> 00:27:11.669 Is the fundraiser over or is it still going on this summer? 285 00:27:13.110 --> 00:27:14.871 I believe the fundraiser might still be going on. 286 00:27:14.912 --> 00:27:23.918 I would recommend your viewers go over to newsbusters.org and check it out for themselves, because depending on when the timing is or when they see this, it might be over. 287 00:27:23.938 --> 00:27:24.698 It might still be going on. 288 00:27:24.718 --> 00:27:27.960 All right, newsbusters.org, mrc.org. 289 00:27:28.361 --> 00:27:29.781 Man, you guys do some great work. 290 00:27:29.841 --> 00:27:34.064 I quote you frequently and just thank you for keeping us informed, brother. 291 00:27:34.084 --> 00:27:34.765 Appreciate your time. 292 00:27:34.785 --> 00:27:35.886 We'll do this again, Lord willing. 293 00:27:36.866 --> 00:27:37.787 Yes, thank you again. 294 00:27:37.807 --> 00:27:38.067 Thank you. 295 00:27:38.877 --> 00:27:41.662 All right, friends, thank you so much for sharing. 296 00:27:42.264 --> 00:27:42.845 God bless you. 297 00:27:42.885 --> 00:27:46.211 And as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter. 298 00:27:46.251 --> 00:27:47.354 See you next time.