Jim Rutenberg
speaker
207 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Jim Rutenberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You have to give the opponent the same amount of time with similar prominence on your station.
That's still around.
there is indeed a window.
There are broader versions of it that get a little bit outside of elections.
He's trying to apply here, but they have different restrictions that make it hard.
He's tried to conflate some of this with news distortion, another public interest provision that you can't stage news, you can't fake news.
A very hard case to make.
You have to prove that a conspiracy goes all the way up to the top of the network and the station.
He's tried to bring that in.
So some of these things, you're right, they're really circumscribed.
The prescriptions are tighter than he lets on, but he's expanding them to the common sense, what you'd think if you heard it on the street.
Well, they're supposed to be fair.
That's not fair.
It's that kind of way of addressing a much more complicated issue.
You would see Trump in his first term say, take their license away, take their license away.
And like Nixon before him, he had public servants who weren't willing to do it the way he wanted to because they didn't see a legal path to really do it legitimately, including Trump's own FCC chair, Ajit Pai.
Now, Brendan Carr was at the FCC then, worked closely with Pai before he became a commissioner himself as a lawyer.
But Brendan Carr is not going after the networks.
NBC doesn't have a license, but its stations do.
And if you start threatening to pull a license from NBC in a market that's important to it, in a market where it may own the station, that hurts the whole network's revenues.
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