That escalated quickly.
DirecTV announced Thursday it will replace Newsmax with another right-wing TV station. Word of the satellite service provider’s new partnership comes after Newsmax — which was dropped from DirecTV’s lineup at the stroke of midnight Wednesday — whined it was a victim of “political discrimination and censorship.”
“DIRECTV will launch conservative opinion and commentary network The First across all three of its video services ... very soon,” DirecTV said in a statement.
