AT&T/ Direct TV to drop OAN

[WuWei]

Maybe I’ll give them another try. Thanks for the update.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@JayJay

I wonder how many posters complaining about this has ever posted “I’ve never even seen OAN…I don’t know what you’re talking about” when they’ve parroted some nutty story OAN ran with.

A new species of the vanishing Republican

[Smyrna]

@Supreme_War_Pig

A new species of the vanishing Republican

…establishment and a return of the government of “we the people”.

[JayJay]

@Smyrna

@WuWei

I tried to watch it once and checked the website out 2-3 times. Not for me. Really not a lot of difference from Breitbart or MSNBC.

OAN has matured over time and become more professional in their stories and deliveries. I’ve also noticed that a number of their journalists have gone over to NewsMax, including Fox journalists. What is being deemed as a conservative news source, is something new and taken off more since Fox moved left.

More mature…

This doesn’t even include their “Promoted” ticker, which leads with a story about how a verse form Leviticus fortells America’s future and the clickbait picture of Sandra Bullock with Keanu Reeves with the banner “Sandra Bullock’s son is fully grown and he looks familiar”.

Yep- more mature.

[RTchoke]

@Camp

It sure did. Hughes net was terrific. We were in early on the satellite TV technology. Saved up for 6 months to purchase 600.00 worth of equipment before they did the lease only in 1997. I stick with it out of nostalgia now.

I stick with it as I really nave no choice in the boonies. Where we live it’s satellite or nothing including internet.

Streaming is an exercise in futility at times.

Also why we still have a land line. No cell service at the house for calls (emergency only) and very little anywhere else.

[enki]

Madeline Peltz

[PurpnGold]

@RTchoke

I stick with it as I really nave no choice in the boonies. Where we live it’s satellite or nothing including internet.

Streaming is an exercise in futility at times.

Also why we still have a land line. No cell service at the house for calls (emergency only) and very little anywhere else.

Hopefully this infrastructure bill helps to get you real internet and cell coverage.

[RTchoke]

LOL. It won’t.

A lot of it is terrain related.

[hwyflier]

Att killing their own Frankenstein

Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News

[Paul_Thomson]

@Jezcoe

Nothing of value will be lost.

Correct. People will follow OAN to some other platform and Direct TV will devalue.

[Smyrna]

@JayJay

Yep- more mature.

Glad we found common ground.

[Smyrna]

@hwyflier

Att killing their own Frankenstein

When the head line states, “far right”…what they truthfully exposed was, they’re left.

[GWH]

Dude, kid looks just like Keanu Reeves. Don’t hate.

[thinkingman]

@PurpnGold

Hopefully this infrastructure bill helps to get you real internet and cell coverage.

the small percentage of it that actually goes to infrastructure (in America) just might

[TommyLucchese]

@WuWei

That doesn’t make any sense.

Sue it does, you just don’t know what’s up. Shockingly.

AT&T, which owns DirecTV, basically financed OAN as an alternative to Fox News and OAN exposed them to so much legal liability with their election lies that AT&T dropped them rather than throw good money after bad.

[gooddad409]

@Paul_Thomson

@Jezcoe

Nothing of value will be lost.

Correct. People will follow OAN to some other platform and Direct TV will devalue.

True. I have OAN and do not have Direct TV.

[WuWei]

@TommyLucchese

@WuWei

That doesn’t make any sense.

Sue it does, you just don’t know what’s up. Shockingly.

AT&T, which owns DirecTV, basically financed OAN as an alternative to Fox News and OAN exposed them to so much legal liability with their election lies that AT&T dropped them rather than throw good money after bad.

AT&T is not liable for OAN content.

[Guilds]

@Smyrna

establishment and a return of the government of “we the people”.

When corporations are considered"people" and money is considered “speech”, the well connected “people” are the primary portion of “we the people”.

That is what happens when the SCOTUS legalizes the bribing of pols.

[Orygun]

@TommyLucchese

Sue it does, you just don’t know what’s up. Shockingly.

AT&T, which owns DirecTV, basically financed OAN as an alternative to Fox News and OAN exposed them to so much legal liability with their election lies that AT&T dropped them rather than throw good money after bad.

Waaaaah…You’re taking away our disinformation channel. Censorship!!

[Paul_Thomson]

@Orygun

Waaaaah…You’re taking away our disinformation channel. Censorship!!

Not taking away. Sending away. AT&T may just find they needed OAN more than OAN needs them.