The following report is from The Verge:
Verizon Fios is the latest provider to drop One American News (OAN) network, a move that leaves the right-wing news channel without a major carrier, as reported earlier by The Daily Beast. In a notice on its website, Verizon explains viewers will no longer have access to OAN starting July 31st.
Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, business-as-usual carriage negotiation like those that routinely happen between content distributors and content providers. These negotiations were focused on economics, as they always are, but OAN failed to agree to fair terms.
Verizon said in a statement to The Daily Beast. Verizon didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.
OAN, which is owned by the California-based Herring Networks, has faced criticism for allegedly “peddling conspiracy theories and falsehoods.” In 2020, YouTube suspended the network’s channel after it promoted a fake cure for COVID-19. OAN also became the subject of a defamation lawsuit filed by the electronic voting system company Dominion over false allegations that its machines interfered with the 2020 US election. Smartmatic, another voting system company, ordered OAN and other conservative stations to retract their claims about voter fraud.
Last year, 16 civil rights, human rights, and media justice groups signed a letter urging DirecTV to drop OAN, which it eventually did. The AT&T spinoff decided not to renew its contract with OAN in January and officially dropped the channel in April. OAN responded by suing DirecTV and AT&T, claiming the companies “bowed to political pressure,” and could potentially cause the network to shut down. Now that both Verizon and DirecTV have dropped OAN, the channel is left without a major broadcasting platform in the US — OAN’s now only available to stream online or on select local stations.
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Regulars of The WP know that I quote a very wide spectrum articles, but maybe save one, I don’t think I’ve ever actually quoted OAN. To me, OAN is like all the other large-scale media outlets that lie and pervert the truth. On OAN, Trump is Christ incarnate, they give leeway to a ton of Qanon rhetoric, very pro-Roman Catholic, and so forth.
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OAN is definitely an outlet greatly aiding in the “ignite the right” movement I have discussed before. Ever since the face of OAN, trad-Cat Liz Wheeler, left the network to do her own show, I feel like OAN has slowed down a bit, but I could be wrong.
With the all major providers cutting OAN loose, it will simply only add to the deeper division in the U.S.
[23] And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? [24] And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. [25] And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. [26] And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. [27] No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.Mark 3:23-27
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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OAN and also the Epoch Times, they are hardcore Trump hailers.
I bet they planned this “losing their station” as all part of an ignite the right stunt.
The Epoch Times has decent information from time to time, but I agree. A lot of these ardent Trump-towing websites can be difficult to listen to because literally everything is blamed on the Dems, as if the non-RHINOS and Trump are not a big source of the issues. Newsmax is another one that is “out there.”
Jacob,
I wrote an article inspired by Bryan’s sermon “why God hates modern church people.” And I’m not trying to copycat, I just adore that sermon so much, that I wanted to bring something extra to the table as well as give a backstory of myself in it.
Can I send it to ya?
“Human rights” groups urged them to drop OAN. I laughed at the irony there. Haha
You’re a pyramid scheme, you’re no different than Primerica!
Mr. Thompson, the owner of this site is going to block you!