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remember last week when biden interupted all public air waves for the purpose of personally letting you know that israel totally did not just blow up a hospital in gaza

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[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Is that something that happened over there? He interrupted the airwaves?

[-] worker_bear@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah the fed has emergency powers to broadcast directly to the public during times of turbo mega crisis, biden decided to use this authority (which he never used during covid obv bc lol) to spread misinformation on behalf of the Israeli state department and cover just another banal war crime and act of terrorism by the IDF

[-] edge@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Wait this was actually some federal override broadcast? I thought it was just all the main channels that do both news and regular shows (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) cutting their programming willingly because a speech by the president is "important".

Channels that never show news were interrupted? Like was Cartoon Network interrupted?

[-] fuckiforgotmypasswor@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

huh maybe, im trying to find all the places it was broadcast and its pretty hard to track down

ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in american history, but maybe not a literal federal override thing

[-] edge@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in history

That doesn't sound right, Biden alone has given 30 addresses to the nation like that. Unless they mean very particular circumstances.

Even of the more major addresses I can think of there are more than 7

(in no particular order)

  • Bush on 9/11
  • Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden
  • Trump on the killing of al-Baghdadi
  • Reagan firing all ATC workers
  • Bush on invading Afghanistan
  • Bush on Hurricane Katrina
  • Carter on the hostages in Iran
  • Nixon's resignation
  • Ford's pardoning of Nixon
  • LBJ on Kennedy's assassination
[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Nah cable channels came after this law so they're exempt because they were considered a luxury good

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