Common Cause Applauds Verizon's Decision to Drop OAN

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Common Cause has commended Verizon for its decision to drop 1 America News Network from its aqueduct line-upwardly at the end of July.

The conclusion by DirecTV to driblet OAN earlier this year and Verizon's decision not to renew wagon, means that no major pay TV outlet will be carrying the conservative news network, which has been under fire for promoting false and misleading information about the COVID-19 pandemic, the results of the 2020 election, and the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th.

Conversative news organizations OAN, Fox News and Newsmax also confront a billion-dollar libel lawsuit brought past the Dominion Voting Systems and OAN faces a carve up libel arrange from Smartmatic, another maker of voting machines.

Mutual Cause and a coalition of civil-rights, man-rights and media-justice organizations accept pushed the major carriers to drib OANN since 2021. Last year, the coalition organized a alphabetic character to the CEOs of AT&T and DirecTV urging their companies to sever business ties with the network. Later on more than 170,000 people signed a petition calling on AT&T and DirectTV to cut all ties with OANN, DirecTV dropped the channel from its lineup.

"With the motion by Verizon Fios, I America News Network will be left without a major carrier to spread its often harmful and dangerous disinformation and groundless conspiracy theories," said Yosef Getachew, Common Cause Media and Democracy program director. "This is a welcome change simply long overdue. OANN has spread lies that take hindered U.Due south. efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, undermined Americans' faith in our elections, and fed the Large Lie narrative that led to a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Nosotros promise those remaining small pay-tv providers and streaming services still carrying OANN will follow conform and deprive the outlet of whatever platform to spread harmful conspiracy theories that have done existent earth harm. No company should profit from spreading content that endangers our commonwealth."

George Winslow is the senior content producer for TV Tech. He has written about the idiot box, media and technology industries for nearly 30 years for such publications as Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and TV Tech. Over the years, he has edited a number of magazines, including Multichannel News International and World Screen, and moderated panels at such major industry events as NAB and MIP Telly. He has published two books and dozens of encyclopedia articles on such subjects as the media, New York Metropolis history and economics.