This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Wednesday, October 25th,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown. It can't be said enough when you give a power to the

government your ideological opponents will try to use it to target you.

And it's not a new facet of politics, but it's expressing itself in new ways.

Cato's Paul Matzko discusses some of the history of when politicians have tried to

crack down on a free press. A fear that I have harbored for some time, which is

a bipartisan effort to hand to some large federal agency the power to make determinations about the relative responsibility of news

outlets about making determinations about what is true and false and having some sort of

sanction follow that determination and it appears to begin the beginning of that fear being realized is here.

Yeah, you're not wrong, Caleb. So there's a small progressive group called the Media and Democracy Project, which has sued or has basically alleged that a

Fox News affiliate in Philadelphia, Fox 29 for our Philadelphia listeners, is up for a license renewal. So broadcast stations are

licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, and they have to renew that every couple

of years. This is different from cable or other forms of broadcasting that are not licensed by the

federal government. And so they have challenged that license renewal and said,

because Fox News, the cable channel lied about the

2020 election its affiliate its broadcast TV affiliate should have its license

removed for news distortion for making up stuff

about the news or about you know about what was happening in the election and this has

been joined by Bill Crystal the former editor of the Weekly Standard,

Never Trump Conservative, who blames Fox News for helping boost Trump into the White House.

And so I suspect that the margins, this is a way of settling old scores but it's a

by-part it's progressive conservative signing on to this effort to deny this license

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