re: FCC Commissioner says this SNL stunt is election interference

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Indeed. And you should understand the term "use" in this context is advertising. If they gave Kamala time for $0 for political content

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Yeah, keep moving the fricking goalpost. Pretend in your own f*cked-in-the-head mind that no one can go back and read all your previous fricking posts. You are one SERIOUSLY STUPID F*CK.

It’s Saturday night before the fricking election. How the frick was Trump supposed to know to ask for equal time? it’s not like they can give him equal time next fricking week on SNL you ignorant fricking moron it’s too fricking late. Do you honestly fricking doubt that this wasn’t fricking orchestrated by Lorne Michaels, NBC, and the DNC?

You just can't be THIS F*CKING STUPID.

And, there’s nothing that could possibly compare with the airtime she got tonight. You’re just talking out of your fricking arse - AGAIN - and making up new fricking shite to try to deflect from the fact that you’ve made a complete fricking moron of yourself and look like a complete fricking idiot. Don't try to act like this is what you’ve been saying all along. It's the exact fricking opposite.

Seriously, if you want to save any fricking dignity whatsoever, and have anybody ever take you seriously on this board, just admit you were wrong, admit you were talking out of your fricking arse while trying to paint yourself as some sort of fricking legal expert, APOLOGIZE, and move the frick on.

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Unless Trump requested to be on the show, and was denied, it's not a violation

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.. How's he supposed to do that?

There are no more Saturdays before the election.

NBC and the rest need to go under.

I personally don't watch shite (except LSU football) on any of these garbage channels. And I'm not the only one.

I hope their ad revenue dries up and they go under. Truthfully.

The democrats should be punished for breaking the rules, but this is nothing to worry about. The more people see kamala, the more they dislike her. Her own people know this which is why they tried to hide her for so long.

No one watches SNL. No one is going to change their vote because of this.

I wish I could give you more than 1 upvote

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.. How's he supposed to do that? There are no more Saturdays before the election.

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I guess he could have any of the previous weeks? Like others have said, if he did and SNL/NBC refused, that’s a blatant violation. But if at no time did Trump request, and Harris did request just recently for this specific Saturday, kinda seems just like a smart play here.

Could be because Lorne Michaels said last month he would not have any of the candidates on before the election.

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"Saturday Night Live" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels admitted he has not reached out and will not reach out to the presidential candidates for a potential cameo ahead of the election.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Tuesday, Michaels explained it would be unlikely for former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris to appear for the show’s milestone 50th anniversary season, citing the need for "equal time" to both of them. "You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions," Michaels said. "You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states and that becomes really complicated."

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free $200 million commercial for Kamala.

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Your math is wrong. That comes out to about $1,000,000 a viewer

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The law doesn’t distinguish this. It requires equal time for both candidates. Even if SNL is too fricking dumb to take advantage of the time they gave Kamala, they still have to give time to Trump.

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And on top of that the rules do not specify what “equal time” means. The way some interpret it, “equal time” could be in an entirely different time slot.

Then the other way around Equal Time rules is classifying shows and content as a “bonafide newscast.” Shows like the Tonight Show have that exemption.

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the FCC has been more and more liberal in its interpretations of what constitutes a news or news interview program. It is no longer just the evening newscast on a station and the boring Sunday morning talking heads news interview program that qualify. Instead, the FCC has recognized that people get their “news” from all sorts of different kinds of broadcast programs, and the FCC has determined that any program that regularly features newsmakers, where the program content is in the hands of the producers and where the program’s guests are selected for newsworthiness, and not to promote a particular political agenda, can be an exempt news or news interview program. So the FCC has ruled that a host of programs that may not look like hard news, from the Today Show to the Phil Donahue program to the late-night talk shows, could be exempt news interview programs where a candidate’s appearance did not trigger equal time. If the program covers some aspect of the news, and regularly features newsmakers, it is likely to be determined to be an exempt program

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Source: Broadcast Law Blog


But on the SNL front, PBS’s media law section has a write up on what happened in 2015:

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For example, in November 2015 then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was the guest host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Trump appeared on the program for just over 12 minutes. After the broadcast, the campaigns of four rival Republican candidates were provided free, 12-minute prime-time slots on NBC-affiliated stations in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina during a subsequent weekend. The rival candidates were not, however, invited to host Saturday Night Live.

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PBS Standards and Media Law 101

3 days before the general election is on a different plane of existence than a Republican primary