▲ 962 ▼ Stephen Colbert’s unaired James Talarico interview hits 6.4 million YouTube views and results in $2.5 million raised for Talarico’s campaign in 24 hours (variety.com) submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 111 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 12 points 6 months ago (3 children) because of FCC’s “equal time” rule — which requires broadcast networks to provide opposing political candidates equivalent airtime. That would require them to give equal air time to the communist and green candidates, right? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] mcv@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago Don't be silly. Only parties with corporate interests count. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 007ace@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago Because this is for a primary, and the guy is already red, the only opposing political candidate is some other red guy. Not like a democrat can run in the republican primary. It was a stupid position to take. But now that CBS has been put on notice, they should plan their scheduling a bit more in advance around their programming. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Exactly. Crockett was kind of making a stink about not being invited as if it had anything to do with her. They don’t want to give equal time to pdf protecting fascists from the GOP permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago Don't be silly. Only parties with corporate interests count. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 007ace@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago Because this is for a primary, and the guy is already red, the only opposing political candidate is some other red guy. Not like a democrat can run in the republican primary. It was a stupid position to take. But now that CBS has been put on notice, they should plan their scheduling a bit more in advance around their programming. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Exactly. Crockett was kind of making a stink about not being invited as if it had anything to do with her. They don’t want to give equal time to pdf protecting fascists from the GOP permalink fedilink source parent