Nico Perrino on Colbert Blasting CBS Over Talarico’s Interview: We Know That Trump ‘Doesn‘t Like These Late-Night Shows,’ So They‘re Being Weaponized

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PERRINO: “The incentives here are for the network to just lay off anything that goes here. And this is why free speech advocates have long criticized the content regulations that come from the FCC on broadcast communications. It‘s like this bizarro world where the First Amendment doesn‘t apply. You have First Amendment rules for newspapers. You have First Amendment rules for books, cable television, free speech applies, but in broadcast you have all these content regulations. And these content regulations can be easily weaponized. It happened during the JFK administration. It‘s the reason that the Reagan Administration got rid of the fairness doctrine. And now we know that President Trump doesn‘t like these late-night shows. And so they‘re being weaponized, in my opinion, against these shows.”