Posted on 12/06/2016 12:52:59 PM PST by Hojczyk
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes told Business Insider's Henry Blodget on Tuesday that the "real threat" to the First Amendment did not come from President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, but rather from the Democratic Party.
Bewkes was speaking at Business Insider's annual IGNITION conference, during which he was asked about Trump's frequent campaign threats to open up libel laws.
Trump has also set his sights on Bewkes' own media property, CNN, which he consistently ridiculed along the campaign trail and even after Election Day.
"Do you worry about that at all?" Blodget asked.
Bewkes said he didn't "think that's a serious thing," adding that "we should all worry" if someone were seeking to change the First Amendment. He suggested that came from the Democratic Party, which "had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform."
"And that was worrying me more," Bewkes said. "The press tends to miss that because they tend to lean that way, and therefore they were supporting what they were viewing — I think overly charitably — as something in cleaning up money in politics when in fact what it would do is restrain multiple voices."
Democrats, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, vowed to engage in campaign finance reform following the election — a cause that has been bolstered in recent years by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The 2010 ruling deemed that corporations and labor unions were people who could flex First Amendment rights in contributing to campaigns, and it led to the advent of so-called super PACs.
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I take it with a grain of salt.
He has a HUGE merger pending.
Trump is the new boss.
He has no choice but to begin sucking-up to him.
Exactly!
However, a merger between AT&T and Time Warner seems too big, and we would not be able to have any competition.
AT&T already has Direct TV, and they just built an APP. That way anyone in the country, possibly the world, can now get Direct TV without a Satellite dish.
You nailed it!
Some one has strung new cable here
I have asked around but it is not known who is stringing it
I think it is ATT to provide fiber to the house and broad band. With the Cable they are direct competition to the Charter monopoly
I have no basis in reality for thinking it ATT and not some one else
Saw the headline. Thought it was going to be about Democrat efforts to censor “fake” news.
You Got That Right!
They don’t pay taxes anyway, living in their patent’s basement.
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