GOP Senators Investigating DirecTV’s Censorship Of Newsmax, OAN

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Censorship of conservative outlets is ongoing.

DirecTV dropped Newsmax in late January.

This meant that there over 13 million users could no longer get Newsmax.

The Epoch Times reported:

Millions of DirecTV subscribers no longer have access to Newsmax programming after the AT&T-owned satellite giant and the conservative news network failed to reach a new carriage deal.

The official deadline passed at midnight on Tuesday. As a result, Newsmax’s programs went to a blackout for more than 13 million customers of the satellite service, as well as those using DirecTV Stream and fiber-based AT&T U-Verse.

Newsmax, on the other hand, claimed that the satellite provider’s decision wasn’t driven by a desire to cut cost, but a bias against conservative viewpoints.

“DirecTV pays cable license fees to all top 75 cable channels and to all 22 liberal news and information channels it carries. Almost all of these channels are paid hefty license fees significantly more than Newsmax was seeking,” the Manhattan-based company said in a statement on Wednesday, claiming that most of those channels have “much lower ratings” than Newsmax.

GOP Senators are now investigating DirecTV’s censorship.

Human Events reported:

Four Republican Senators have launched an investigation into AT&T DirecTVs recent move to drop popular conservative news channel Newsmax, removing it from 13 million homes overnight.

A letter penned this week by Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Tom Cotton, and Lindsey Graham calls into question both the recent removal of Newsmax and DirecTV’s similar 2022 removal of One America News Network (OAN), which came after Nacy Pelosi and Democrat Congressmen Eshoo and McNerney wrote to the company in 2021 asking it to drop OAN, Newsmax, and Fox News.

“These three networks were the three largest conservative news networks in America, and now— in less than a year—DirecTV has de-platformed two of them,” the Senators note.

The Senators’ letter poses a number of pointed questions to the company, including whether it or any of its affiliates were in communication with government officials regarding these decisions, as well as the nature of any such communications. The Senators have also demanded that the companies produce records of any such communication, as well as other specific records surrounding the decisions.

This is how it is done!