remember last week when biden interupted all public air waves for the purpose of personally letting you know that israel totally did not just blow up a hospital in gaza

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    Wait this was actually some federal override broadcast? I thought it was just all the main channels that do both news and regular shows (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) cutting their programming willingly because a speech by the president is “important”.

    Channels that never show news were interrupted? Like was Cartoon Network interrupted?

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      huh maybe, im trying to find all the places it was broadcast and its pretty hard to track down

      ABC called it a “primetime address” or something and that it’s only happened like 7 times in american history, but maybe not a literal federal override thing

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        ABC called it a “primetime address” or something and that it’s only happened like 7 times in history

        That doesn’t sound right, Biden alone has given 30 addresses to the nation like that. Unless they mean very particular circumstances.

        Even of the more major addresses I can think of there are more than 7

        (in no particular order)

        • Bush on 9/11
        • Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden
        • Trump on the killing of al-Baghdadi
        • Reagan firing all ATC workers
        • Bush on invading Afghanistan
        • Bush on Hurricane Katrina
        • Carter on the hostages in Iran
        • Nixon’s resignation
        • Ford’s pardoning of Nixon
        • LBJ on Kennedy’s assassination
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      Nah cable channels came after this law so they’re exempt because they were considered a luxury good