nonprofit Common Cause urged smaller carriers to drop the network as well. In a statement following the Verizon news, the George Soros-funded D.C. Leftists have made no attempts to hide their efforts to completely destroy OAN. Verizon claims that its decision was not made on a partisan basis, with a statement on its website stating “sometimes broadcasters and cable networks demand unacceptable price increases.” But it stops short of specifically accusing OAN of making such demands, and there is no evidence that the network did so. That’s up to the consumer themselves,” said Rep. “It’s not up to Verizon to determine what American citizens, what information they can access. In a recent interview with OAN, she said Verizon was taking choice away from consumers. The rise of telecom blacklisting has been blasted by one of the top Republicans in the House, Rep. Last year Democratic Reps Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Jerry McNerney (D-CA), both of whom sit on the House Commerce Committee which oversees the FCC, wrote to the largest cable and Satellite companies including DirecTV, Verizon, Comcast, and Cox, stating: “We are concerned about the role” each distributor “plays in disseminating misinformation to millions of subscribers, and we write to you to request additional information about what actions is taking to address these issues.” As with other concentrations of corporate power, the left hopes to use this to censor conservative viewpoints. Telecom companies have already had an impact on national politics, with Verizon and AT&T briefly shutting down Trump’s campaign texts during the 2020 election, costing him millions of dollars. These conglomerates are vertically integrated, with the major companies also distributing Cable and Satellite TV. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) used their clout as members of the House Energy Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, which oversees telecom regulators, to pressure carriers into dropping OAN. is part of a rapidly escalating trend in the deplatforming of conservative media - an attempt to take major conservative cable channels off the air, or to bankrupt them by denying them the cable carriage revenue enjoyed by other channels.Īs Breitbart News reported last month, Democrat House members Rep. The blacklisting by two dominant cable carriers in the U.S. It also followed AT&T-owned DirecTV dropping OAN earlier in the year, amid similar political pressure. (Kinsey did not respond to Source Material when asked about where she landed.Verizon’s decision came after relentless pressure from leftist organizations like Media Matters and Free Press, as well as Democrat politicians. Brown was executive producer of Dan Ball’s nightly Real America show but is now at Newsmax-which has a history of poaching OAN talent. Two people with knowledge of the situation further told Source Material that White House correspondent Camryn Kinsey and producer Justin Adam Brown also recently jumped ship. Additionally, correspondent and producer Jezzamine Wolk exited early last month to anchor a morning show for a local Louisiana news station. Like what you’re reading? Subscribe to the Source Material newsletter here and have The Daily Beast media team’s stellar reporting sent straight to your inbox every Monday night.įormer Trump advisory board member Natalie Harp, who debuted last year in primetime with The Real Story, quietly left in mid-March to also go work for Trump. Taking over for Bobb as Weekly Briefing host is longtime OAN conspiracist Chanel Rion, who also co-founded an election-denying nonprofit with Bobb. Christina Bobb, the weekend host who moonlighted as former President Donald Trump’s insurrectionist attorney, ditched the network last month to work for Trump’s PAC.
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