{"id":24784,"date":"2015-01-14T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24784"},"modified":"2015-01-14T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:37:28","slug":"free-speech-is-in-danger-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24784","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Is In Danger In America"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have DISH cable tv. Currently I am very unhappy that I don’t have Fox News on my cable. Fortunately, I also have Sirius internet, so I can still listen to Special Report and the Journal Editorial Report<\/a> even though I can’t watch them. I do not have the option of changing cable service<\/a>, because it is part of the community I live in. However, if FOX News<\/a> does not come back soon, I may begin to look into other ways I can get it. So what is this fight between DISH and FOX News about?<\/p>\n

On January 13, mrctv<\/a> posted an article about the ongoing battle between DISH and FOX News.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Dish Network<\/a> dropped<\/a> Fox News and its sister network Fox Business Channel<\/a> at the end of last year and the network still remains blacked out for Dish\u2019s 14 million subscribers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dish Network claims that they dropped the nation\u2019s number one cable news network because of a contract dispute.\u00a0 Fox News disagrees, claiming that the move is an effort by Dish Network to censor their content.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not entirely clear who\u2019s in the right in this matter, digging into the background of Dish Network\u2019s\u00a0 founder and chairman Charles Ergen<\/a> may help to illuminate why animosity between Dish and FNC has reached such epic proportions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains that Charles Ergen donated $64,000 to the Democratic Senatorial campaign Committee<\/a> in 2014. The main recipients of the donation were Kay Hagen(NC), Mark Pryor (ARK.),\u00a0 Mark Warner (Va) and Mark Begich (Alaska). That in itself is not a problem, but the story continues:<\/p>\n

In 2012, a federal complaint <\/a>was filed against Ergen in which several company executives alleged that he had intimidated<\/a> them into making contributions to specific candidates, the majority of which were Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The claim was filed by an unnamed company insider who accused Ergen of “forcing” Dish Network\u2019s Chief Operating Officer Bernard Han to donate to a Democratic Party<\/a> candidate in the 2009\/2010 election cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The complaint also claimed that Han was \u201cencouraged” to attend Democratic functions and fundraisers and that other Dish employees were strong-armed by Ergen in a similar way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the insider, Ergen insinuated to Han that he would still have his job if he declined to make the contribution, but would suffer consequences if he refused.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This does not sound like someone who is interested in either free speech of a balanced playing field.<\/p>\n

Our community will review its cable tv choice this spring. If FOX News is not back on DISH, I hope we will change providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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