ABC is pushing back against the FCC review by arguing that The View should officially qualify as a “bona fide news program.”
They cite a 2002 FCC ruling and more than 76,000 public comments, most supporting the network. ABC claims the FCC is threatening First Amendment rights by trying to decide what counts as legitimate news.
But this argument is laughable.
It’s literally called The View because it is the personal opinions and viewpoints of the hosts, politicians, and celebs — not news.
So ABC is right on one key point: The View isn’t fake news, because it is not news at all.
It’s a daytime talk show where the hosts and their guests give their opinions on politics and “Hot Topics.”
They don’t do original reporting. They don’t investigate stories. They don’t practice journalism.
6 women sit around a table and repeat their views on carefully selected topics.
And that is exactly how The View dumbs people down about news.
It packages opinion as information, sells talking points as truth, and trains viewers to mistake emotional reactions for actual reporting.
The real reason ABC wants this classification is obvious: the FCC’s equal-time rule.
More specifically, ABC wants The View treated as a “bona fide news interview program,” because that classification gives the show an exemption when political candidates appear on the program.
In plain English, if The View interviews a political candidate, ABC does not want that appearance to trigger equal-time obligations for opposing candidates.
But here is another problem: interviews are not automatically news.
A friendly sit-down with a Democrat, a celebrity activist, or a political guest is not the same thing as reporting.
Letting someone repeat campaign talking points at a table full of sympathetic hosts is not journalism.
It is still opinion-driven daytime television.
Calling it a “news interview program” does not magically turn The View into a newsroom.
In 2025, The View hosted 128 liberal guests compared to only 2 conservatives.
In early 2026, the pattern continued, with the show featuring 27 liberal guests and just 1 Republican.
That is not balance.
That is not journalism.
That is political programming with a studio audience.
I’d love to see this all-women panel spend an entire episode covering important stories the media ignores, including stories like these:
More ILLEGAL ALIEN Headlines The Corporate, Liberal, & Public News Media Do NOT Report
But they won’t.
Because The View does not report news.
If ABC thinks citing 76,000 public comments proves the show is news, they’re kidding themselves.
And anyone who believes The View reports news is brainwashed. Propaganda, interviews, and opinion are not news.
It’s called The View, for God’s sake.
The New York Post:
…FCC Chair Brendan Carr has said the show is not a bona fide news show, so it shouldn’t get the exemption.
The statement came in response to an FCC review of whether “The View” qualifies for exemption from a rule requiring broadcasts to give competing political candidates equal time.
“The First Amendment does not permit the government to sit in an editor’s chair. Yet that is the seat the Commission now proposes to take — deciding which broadcast programs qualify as legitimate news and, for those it finds wanting, compelling them to surrender their airtime to guests they never chose to feature,” ABC said in its filing…
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