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FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates (muckrock.com)

Posted by timothy on from the your-complaints-may-vary dept.

v3rgEz writes: Wish that you could have tuned into all the primary debates without a cable subscription? You're not alone. According to MuckRock analysis of primary-related FCC complaints, that was one of the most common complaints, as well as allegations of corporate bias, candidate preferences by the networks, and general gripes about how corporate supposedly open debates have become. I wish there was a database to consult for complaints about the U.S. primary system, too.

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  1. Diseased agencies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The FCC is just as politically tainted as the Department of Justice, EPA, IRS, BLM, DHS, HHS, HUD, SSA, VA and the rest of Obama's diseased agencies. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Their man Obama benefited from the same corrupt media treatment in the last 2 elections. He still does.

  2. Re:Corporate bias? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The US has (thankfully) never been a democracy. It is a constitutional republic

    You're wrong there, and that's because you're trying too hard to play with semantics by treating "Constitutional republic" and "Democracy" as though they are mutually exclusive terms, when that's far from true. "Democracy" is the more general term which encompases several types of republics and a whole lot more. A constitutional republic as found in the US, for example, falls under the more specific subset of democracy known as a liberal democracy.