{"id":5763,"date":"2018-04-03T15:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:38:45","slug":"fcc-flooded-with-complaints-about-donald-trumps-sthole-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/fcc-flooded-with-complaints-about-donald-trumps-sthole-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Flooded With Complaints About News Stories Regarding Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;S**thole&#8221; Comment on January 11, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Warning: The below contains strong language.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On January 12, 2018, CNN published the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>President Donald Trump expressed frustration behind closed doors with people coming to the US from &#8220;shithole countries,&#8221; sources told CNN on Thursday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>One of the sources briefed on the Thursday Oval Office meeting with lawmakers confirmed Trump asked, &#8220;Why do we want all these people from &#8216;shithole countries&#8217; coming here?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN, along with other networks, began running stories regarding the comment. Though uncharacteristically, many networks (arguably, mostly CNN) had no problem saying &#8220;Shithole&#8221; without any type of censorship in the form of a &#8220;beep&#8221; or finding a different way to reference the statement (ie: &#8220;s-hole&#8221; etc.)<\/p>\n<p>In January of 2018, I filed a report to the FCC for complaints filed that contain the word &#8220;Shithole&#8221;.\u00a0 This would encompass the complaints sent in to the FCC about this statement.<\/p>\n<p>The result shows a barrage of complaints on various networks from all over the United States.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/fcc\/TrumpLanguageComplaints-2018.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0FCC Flooded With Complaints About News Stories Regarding Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;S**thole&#8221; Comment on January 11, 2018<\/a> [165 Pages, 1.9MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/fcc\/TrumpLanguageComplaints-2018.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: The below contains strong language. Background On January 12, 2018, CNN published the following: President Donald Trump expressed frustration behind closed doors with people coming to the US from &#8220;shithole countries,&#8221; sources told CNN on Thursday. One of the sources briefed on the Thursday Oval Office meeting with lawmakers confirmed Trump asked, &#8220;Why do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50],"tags":[737,923,1187,950],"class_list":{"0":"post-5763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-government","8":"category-tv-show-complaints","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-fcc","11":"tag-federal-communications-commission","12":"tag-trump"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-03_8-24-43.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}