Thu Jan 26, 2023 – 2:03 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — DirecTV, owned by AT&T, announced on Tuesday evening it would drop conservative news outlet Newsmax from its offerings, which will further allow a small group of mostly liberal news groups to dominate cable.
The cable corporation said it all came down to money, but Newsmax’s CEO says politics are at play. “The deplatforming of Newsmax shuts the network off from more than 13 million customers of the satellite service and DirecTV Stream and U-Verse,” Newsmax reported.
DirecTV told The Hill:
On multiple occasions, we made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network, but ultimately Newsmax’s demands for rate increases would have led to significantly higher costs that we would have to pass on to our broad customer base.
CEO Chris Ruddy says his network has been the target of a political agenda.
“This is a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax,” Ruddy said, as reported by The Hill. “The most extreme liberal channels, even with tiny ratings, get fees from AT&T’s DirecTV, but Newsmax and OAN need to be deplatformed.”
It is the latest cancel culture victory for leftists
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