After Getting Dropped By DirecTV, Newsmax Chief Gets a Warm Welcome at CPAC

Following a month that saw Newsmax hailed as the right’s latest “cancel culture” martyr, Chris Ruddy, the network’s chief executive, received a hero’s welcome at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. Ruddy, who spoke on the main stage alongside embattled CPAC head Matt Schlapp, portrayed DirecTV’s decision to end its relationship with Newsmax as a corporate attempt to “deplatform” conservatives. “Our view was that it was censorship,” Ruddy told the conservative crowd gathered at a convention center near Washington, DC. To support this claim, the network head cited DirecTV’s decision to drop One America News––another smaller right-wing channel––from its… Read Full Article