Trump Campaign Releases Statement Threatening That Trump Administration Will “Break Up” Media Conglo

[thucythucy]

53. The New York Times and the Washington Post aren't "broadcasters."

There's also this little thing called the First Amendment that prohibits government action against news organizations in order to intimidate them, which is what this sounds like. There's also the Fourteenth Amendment that promises "due process" and "equal protection" under the law, so the government can't single out particular organizations for intervention based on their politics.

Cable news also isn't, technically, "broadcasting." It's not going out over the publicly owned airwaves, so cable news outlets are also immune.

In fact, the outlets most vulnerable to this sort of action would be network TV and hate radio. Interesting, though, how Trump isn't threatening to go after Rush Limbaugh, or the various right wing radio conglomerates. Only outlets that have dared to call out Trump for the serial liar that he is.