House Republicans Urge DirecTV Not to Drop Newsmax

Republican members of Congress are calling on DirecTV to not drop the conservative news network Newsmax from its channel lineup as the satellite provider did to One America News (OAN) last year.
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas), along with 41 Republican colleagues, said in a letter that there are reasons to believe DirecTV is “moving to de-platform Newsmax by denying it cable fees on a fair and equitable basis.”
Specifically, the lawmakers cited the cancellation of OAN, a decision that came about a year after Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee specifically asked providers whether they planned to continue carrying programming for Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax—conservative networks Democrats deemed “misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm.”…}