Censorship is Dangerous to Freedom with Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax

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Heidi St. John

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Newsmax just pulled AT&T and DirectTV from their channel list. Right or left, we should all stand for free speech in America, even if we disagree with it. Join me as we hear from Chris Ruddy. SHOW NOTES

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0:00.0	Conservative news outlets are fighting for their lives these days.
0:03.2	And at midnight last Tuesday, AT&T's direct TV cut Newsmax's signal immediately shedding the
0:09.6	network off for more than 13 million customers of the satellite service direct TV stream and
0:15.8	U-verse. You guys know that this is the second time in the past year that AT&T has moved to cancel
0:21.6	a conservative channel. I'll be discussing this today with my guest, the CEO of Newsmax,
0:26.2	Christopher Reddy. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.
0:37.4	Well, thank you guys for joining me today. You know that we've been talking now for quite some
0:41.6	time about what's happening to conservatives in the media. And just last week we got wind that AT&T
0:48.1	was added again this time. They're taking aim at Newsmax. We are very thrilled here at the show to
0:53.0	have the CEO of Newsmax on to talk about this. Chris Reddy is on the show with me. He is a noted
0:59.5	journalist and entrepreneur and the president at Newsmax Media, one of the nation's leading
1:04.5	news media companies. He founded Newsmax in 1998 and I'm thrilled to have him here. Hey, Chris,
1:09.9	welcome to the show. Heidi, thank you for having me. I'm really honored. I know you have one of the
1:14.7	great podcasts out there. People talk about it. And so I'm excited to be here even if it's a
1:20.6	difficult circumstances for Newsmax in the country. Yeah. Well, you guys are at the, you're the tip
1:25.9	of the spear now because we've been watching this happen across the country in different media outlets.
1:31.4	I've been censored on social media, deep platformed on Facebook. They refused to verify my page even
1:37.7	though I've got 500,000 followers there. They really are taking aim at conservatives. And unfortunately,
1:43.6	you guys have become the latest in the headlines of that. What's going on with Newsmax?
1:48.0	Well, what people should be shocked at is Newsmax is not a small operation where you try. We're
1:53.9	reaching 25 million people were on every major cable system. We're known by everybody in the
1:58.9	government across the United States. We're pretty well respected. The left doesn't like us, but you
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