TV viewers keep asking the FCC to punish CNN for Trump coverage even though it can't

Hundreds of TV viewers are taking up President Trump's war with CNN by filing Federal Communications Commission complaints calling for the news network to be punished and taken off the tube, records show — even though the agency has zero authority over cable television.

Since late June, viewers have filed more than 1,100 FCC complaints about news coverage of President Donald Trump. No other topic has consumed them as overwhelmingly as CNN, the news channel President Trump has trashed more than any other. Out of the complaints, about 750 call for CNN to be taken off the air or lose its [non-existent] broadcasting license. Nearly a dozen accuse CNN of broadcasting "illegal" content and committing "treason" or "crimes against America." One says the channel should face a $100 million government fine. In hundreds of other complaints, viewers call the news channel "disgusting," "fake," "bogus," "fictitious," "communistic," and a "danger" to the President. Nearly all of these complaints are misplaced, because cable news is not regulated by any government agency and the FCC has no ability to police it. Several viewers even complained about The New York Times and Washington Post, two newspapers that are in no way regulated by the government.