President Trump said last week that broadcast TV licenses “must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked” in response to “partisan, distorted and fake” news coverage. But few people seem to have taken him seriously, even though complaints against broadcasters are easy to file.
Publicly available data from the Federal Communications Commission show there wasn’t a significant bump in consumer complaints against TV stations after a pair of Trump tweets Thursday, despite the fact that complaints are made using a simple online form or phone call.
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