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People keep saying this, but how would that work? We've seen major broadcasting networks refuse to air his press conferences before. Aren't most big platforms with the ability to reach "every American" private companies that can do the same?

This is a genuine question - I do not watch a lot of news. Is there a government owned platform that I don't know about? I just looked into CSPAN a bit and it is a private organization, so couldn't they also just decide to not air things?

edit: I am referring to the claim that "He can call a press conference and communicate with every American within minutes." How?




You seem to conflate the right to speech with the right to be heard.

No one in America has the latter.


While those might be private companies and therefore not required to air anything from anyone, the same goes for the people that would watch/read it: even if someone were to post something on twitter, nobody is required to then actually read it.


Are presidents entitled to be broadcast on private networks?




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