Licentious

   The Chief Twit called for a challenge to NBC's license because of its reporting on Oval Office activities.
   Problem One: Broadcast licenses are issued to individual stations in metro areas around the country. Not every station in the NBC network is owned by NBC.
   Problem Two: There is a limit to the number of stations an individual company may own. To shut down NBC would be a bureaucratic nightmare, challenging each and every NBC-owned station as licenses come up for renewal.
   Problem Three: Other stations not owned by NBC would likely continue their news coverage of Oval Office activities, using their own staffs and news sources.
   Problem Four: Regulation of broadcast networks is a separate issue from station ownership.
   Problem Five: Regulation of cable TV operations is yet another separate issue. They are not broadcast operations, which is the primary responsibility of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
   Problem Six: Other networks, cable operations and independent stations would continue their reporting of Oval Office activities, especially those that criticize the president's attitudes, actions and comments.
   Problem Seven: All news operations, including those with broadcast licenses as well as print news media, which are not licensed by any government entity, will join in the protest against any attack on First Amendment press freedoms.
   Problem Eight: Attacking and threatening to shut down any news media operation critical of a president creates the question of which ones would survive. Would it be only those news media that agree with the government?
   Problem Nine: This would create a government controlled news operation, equal to a propaganda machine. So much for the First Amendment.
   Problem Ten: Even if the president were to succeed in shutting down one network, there are many other news media that will continue to report what government officials say and do.