Trump suggests creating U.S. 'worldwide network' to compete with CNN

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump on Monday suggested the United States should create a "worldwide network" to combat the "unfair" way the country is treated by the media, saying CNN doesn't have enough competition overseas.

"Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair...." the president tweeted. "....and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!"

CNN has both a domestic and international network.

The U.S. government currently funds Voice of America, an international radio broadcast source. Congress in 2017 eliminated the board of directors for the organization, with a new CEO position created, which is appointed by the president.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/26/trump-suggests-us-worldwide-network-1015922

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Does Trump realize that VOA is prohibited from broadcasting to Americans?

[montanacowboy]

1. Yep - let's show the world the way we really are!

30% sexist, racist, misogynistic, cowardly,gun freaks, wife beaters,pussy grabbers, and I could go on and on and on

What a fucking dimwit

[bluestarone]

2. THIS is getting reall really

SCARY!!!!!!!!

[yuiyoshida]

3. So he wants another "Fox News" just to cover

Him? What? Is he dissatisfied with the work that Fox News is doing?

[PeeJ52]

12. Some countries won't allow Fox News...

They demand there has to be some truth in what is broadcast...

[yuiyoshida]

15. True that ...

But Ya know, what Trump wants, the Republicans give him... Maybe the Democratic House will stop this nonsense the moment they are in office!

[Tarc]

4. So he essentially wants his own Pravda, RT, and Sputnik News

Run with that, Cheetolini.

[DownriverDem]

19. No way

We don't need a government TV station. 2020 can't come fast enough.

[NewJeffCT]

20. Fox News is essentially that already

Bill Shine is being paid by the White House and by Fox at the same time.

[colorado_ufo]

5. Gee - our own "state run" news network.

That's never been tried before, anywhere!

[wasupaloopa]

6. Fox News worldwide

[DFW]

11. They already tried that here in Germany

There are still laws on the books here that forbid Nazi propaganda or anything that closely resembles it. Fox Nachrichten Deutschland got nixed before it got started.

Besides, we already have a channel here called "Vox (Voice in Latin)." And in German, the "v" is pronounced likes an "f."

[George II]

7. He already has one - RT.

[DFW]

8. OK, fine, Donald. As long as you alone finance it and take liability for all losses it incurs.

No corporations or foundations to hide behind when it goes bust drowning in debt.

You claim to be worth billions, unless you're lying (you wouldn't do that, would you?), so you can afford it.

Are you still in?

I thought not.

[dweller]

9. will this be forcefed

to our fones too?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. There's not much broadcasting left on the shortwave anymore.

VOA blew up a bunch of towers in Greenville, NC, a few years ago.

Site of the Week 4/15/2016: VOA and Wheatstone, Eastern NC
By Scott Fybush - April 15, 2016

Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH

Perhaps you’ve seen the videos that have been making their way around the ol’ series of tubes for the last few weeks – the dramatic felling of nearly 50 towers that once held up the antennas for the Voice of America near Greenville, North Carolina?

Here’s the good news: while that site (“Site A”) near Washington, N.C. is now in the history books, its mirror image is alive and well about 20 miles away. For the last couple of decades, Site B, south of Greenville, has been VOA’s only active site out of what was once a three-site complex. And as we discovered on a visit in early March, what a site it is!
....

[Thomas Hurt]

13. The fascist pig wants state/party totalitarian style media.

[LakeSuperiorView]

14. Dumbass. That's called Fox News...

[YOHABLO]

16. Every day he's in office makes me depressed and sick.

[Botany]

17. CNN?

CNN that has on Alan Dershowitz, Rick Santorum, and Sippy Cupp all the time?

[Racerdog1]

18. Fucking idiot

Orange asshole sees the Russian network and wants one like his boyfriend Pootin. This fucking moron has to go, I don't care how.

[JudyM]

21. Do actual beneficial, productive things and you will get coverage that you'll like.

[ck4829]

22. I dunno Evangelicals... sounds kinda Antichrist-y, doncha think?

[Moostache]

23. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

Fuck him and the entire GOP cohort that run around licking his ass daily and insisting it is both nutritious AND non-offensive to see...

It is time for some actual reporting to go on in and around this White House. When Trump makes an asinine claim and offers NO PROOF or concrete examples to back up his claims, the press as a unit MUST stop letting him move on to another story. The "next" reporter should be duty bound to confront the president about baseless allegations and proof-free stories.

"Caravan full of ALL BAD HOMBRES?" Where did the little kids running from gas attacks come from then? And if you say "Soros crisis actors", what proof do you have of this allegation? If you can offer no proof, when can we expect the overdue apology?

"Press is treating me very unfairly"... HOW? They give you so much attention and free air that you should be BEGGING them to stay with you...yet you get away with treating them as mushrooms (isolated, in the dark and fed a steady diet of shit) and I cannot stand it.

Drop fucking dead already Trump. You know I hear that you would get the highest ratings like in 5-Evah if you died in office or traffic or while raw dogging the latest porn star you come across...

[getagrip_already]

24. So much for the gov't not competing with industry..... Plus VOA is already a thing.....

Isn't that one of the backbones of conservative doctrine? Tax subsidized enterprises shouldn't compete with private companies.

But, this network already exists. VOA.

[Marcuse]

25. Impotus is already using Radio Marti for propaganda.

[link:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/us-government-funded-news-network-ran-a-hit-piece-on-soros-that-called-him-a-multimillionaire-jew/|

[Demonaut]

26. he creates "Radio Force" as a means to combat CNN

[truthisfreedom]

27. His own private Pravda? Drumpfda!