08-01-2022, 10:36 AM
(08-01-2022, 10:24 AM)Hightop77 Wrote: Here's the narrative when they were bounced from DirecTV early in the year.
Last week, DirecTV issued a terse statement, announcing its decision not to renew its distribution deal with Herring for both OAN and A World of Wealth.
The decision came following criticism of AT&T, which as Reuters detailed in October, played a foundational role in the launch of One America News. The channel, in turn, has come under intense scrutiny for its staunch support of former president Donald Trump's "Big Lie" -- the false narrative that Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election was determined by cheating.Â
More broadly, media pundits view OAN as being on the vanguard of extreme right voices, one of the most vile and prolific fomenters of misinformation and division in American society.Â
“DirecTV made a negligent mistake in 2021 when they renewed their contract with OAN even after OAN spent weeks attacking the election and stoking the embers that helped fuel the January 6 insurrection. They gave OAN a full year to undermine our democracy -- and our country suffered for it," Media Matters said.
So, let's look at this a little closer....
AT&T, per your article, played a "foundational role" in launching OAN. Â
AT&T is run by John Stankey
Early life and education
Stankey was raised in Los Angeles, the youngest of three children in a Jewish household.[1] His father was an insurance underwriter and his mother a housewife.[1] In the 1980s, he graduated with a B.B.A. in Finance from Loyola Marymount University.[1][2] In 1991, he earned an M.B.A. from UCLA.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stankey