Tag: NBC

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats request hearing with FCC after Trump’s threats to suspend broadcast licenses

Diana Stancy Correll · October 17, 2017 11:48 pm

Trump echoed similar disdain and also retaliatory threats on Twitter, suggesting last week to challenge or removal of broadcast licenses of news networks that he deemed "fake news." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump pens laundry-list tweet slamming the ‘fiction writers’ in the ‘fake news’ media

Diana Stancy Correll · October 17, 2017 10:24 pm

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's comments on his dedication to the First Amendment were his first after President Trump suggested last week on Twitter that NBC News and other networks should have their broadcast licenses revoked.

‘I believe in the First Amendment,’ FCC chairman says about Trump’s threat to pull licenses

Melissa Quinn · October 17, 2017 5:51 pm

Michael G. Flynn is a person of interest in the committee's probe, due in part to his work as an aide and travel buddy for his father's Flynn Intel Group, NBC reported. (Image courtesy screenshot)

National Security

Mike Flynn’s son not cooperating with Senate Intelligence probe: Report

Anna Giaritelli · October 17, 2017 1:24 pm

By advocating censorship, Trump sways his supporters and followers towards the censorious views that have taken over academia and much of the Left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Presidential pining for censorship hurts the country

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2017 3:43 pm

"SNL" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, above with the cast of the show, accepts the award for outstanding variety sketch series for "Saturday Night Live" at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards. It's unclear whether the cast will address the Weinstein controversy tonight. The show did not last week.

Will ‘Saturday Night Live’ address Harvey Weinstein allegations?

Caitlin Yilek · October 14, 2017 11:03 pm

NBC Universal enjoyed "a long business relationship" with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who now faces a slew of sexual misconduct charges. (Matthew Staver/ Bloomberg News)

Beltway Confidential

NBC’s credibility collapse

Eddie Scarry · October 14, 2017 4:01 am

House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., (pictured) wants all commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission, including Chairman Ajit Pai, to condemn the president's tweets on broadcast licenses. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Commerce Democrats want FCC to condemn Trump’s threat to network broadcast licenses

Melissa Quinn · October 12, 2017 7:00 pm

Scholars say Trump's claims of "fake news" are unlikely to result in any license revocations by the five-member Federal Communications Commission. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump can challenge NBC’s broadcast licenses, but he’s likely to fail

Steven Nelson · October 12, 2017 12:46 am

Meryl Streep, left, and Harvey Weinstein in the audience during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Hollywood is brave so long as the targets are easy

Becket Adams · October 11, 2017 10:01 pm

President Trump tweeted, "It's frankly disgusting that the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it." (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Beltway Confidential

Trump is baiting the media on free speech and journalists shouldn’t bite

Tom Rogan · October 11, 2017 9:06 pm

President Trump rejected an NBC News report on Wednesday in which sources alleged he once asked for a tenfold increase in the country's nuclear weapons arsenal. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

National Security

Trump urges Jim Mattis to set the record straight on ‘fake’ NBC story

Gabby Morrongiello · October 11, 2017 6:55 pm