House Republicans Ask for Newsmax on Chamber's TV System
House Administration Committee ranking member Rodney Davis, R-Ill., and Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pressed Tuesday to ensure lawmakers and staff “have access” to Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network “on the House’s internal television system.”…
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That system carries Fox and OANN, and “we ask for your commitment” both networks “remain available,” Davis and Jordan wrote House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., asking she “direct the Architect of the Capitol and the House Recording Studio to make Newsmax available.” They framed this as a way to reject “cancel culture” and invoked letters that House Commerce Committee members Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, both D-Calif., sent last month to MVPDs asking them to justify carrying the three networks (see 2102220068). Eshoo and McNerney were effectively “pressuring” the providers,” Davis and Jordan said. “This attempt to cancel Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax is not just a radical attack on the First Amendment’s freedom of the press. It also blatantly ignores how left-wing news outlets regularly pushed false narratives about” former President Donald Trump and his administration. They want House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., to “convene a hearing to examine the dangers of cancel culture.” Newsmax praised the letter in a statement: “Free Speech, the free exchange of ideas, and First Amendment rights are foundational to our nation.” Administration and Judiciary didn’t comment.