David Pierce

Which we should remind people in 2026 is like a teeny tiny power.

Yeah.

Because everyone's watching TikTok.

Yeah.

Over the air television.

Not that important.

Come for us, Brendan.

I haven't broadcast over an airwave in my life and I never will.

Right.

Like, but that's his power and he wields it with impunity.

And, you know, local broadcasters don't have a lot of money or time and they tend to cave.

ABC kind of caved with Jimmy Kimmel.

Like, this is what happens.

So as part of that power, he is also very favorable towards big companies he likes.

So he allowed Nexstar and Tegna, two companies that own an awful lot of TV stations, to merge against the FCC's own rules, which say there should be competition in local broadcasting so you get a multiplicity of viewpoints.

He allowed these companies to merge.

And now they own a lot of local news stations, a lot of local news stations.

And what is Nexstar going to do?

They're going to replace the national news programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox with their own programming from News Nation.

So if you are like Brendan Carr and you keep running around saying, I need to let these things merge so there's more viewpoints and conservatives aren't held in contempt by the mainstream media and you got to compete with Google.