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remember last week when biden interupted all public air waves for the purpose of personally letting you know that israel totally did not just blow up a hospital in gaza

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Wait this was actually some federal override broadcast? I thought it was just all the main channels that do both news and regular shows (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) cutting their programming willingly because a speech by the president is "important".

Channels that never show news were interrupted? Like was Cartoon Network interrupted?

[-] fuckiforgotmypasswor@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

huh maybe, im trying to find all the places it was broadcast and its pretty hard to track down

ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in american history, but maybe not a literal federal override thing

[-] edge@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in history

That doesn't sound right, Biden alone has given 30 addresses to the nation like that. Unless they mean very particular circumstances.

Even of the more major addresses I can think of there are more than 7

(in no particular order)

  • Bush on 9/11
  • Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden
  • Trump on the killing of al-Baghdadi
  • Reagan firing all ATC workers
  • Bush on invading Afghanistan
  • Bush on Hurricane Katrina
  • Carter on the hostages in Iran
  • Nixon's resignation
  • Ford's pardoning of Nixon
  • LBJ on Kennedy's assassination
[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Nah cable channels came after this law so they're exempt because they were considered a luxury good

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