Will Big Journalism will take serious note of something Trump said on Fox "News" today, referring to the ABC News moderators' fact-checking of three (among dozens) of lies during the debate:
"They're a news organization. They have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that."
Another lie, of course: The government doesn't license news organizations per se.
But ABC's airwave licenses are massively valuable.This is not an idle threat.
Dan Gillmor /
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