"Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead,"
"No, no, no, no, no. Look, I like Brendan Carr. He's a good guy. But what he said there is dangerous as hell."
"So the Federal Communication Commission is in charge of granting broadcast licenses. So ABC, NBC, CBS, they have licenses from the FCC. It is true that under statute, they are required to be in the public interest. What he is saying is Jimmy Kimmel was lying. That's true. He was lying. And his lying to the American people is not in the public interest. And so he threatens explicitly: we're going to cancel ABC's license. We're going to take them off the air so ABC cannot broadcast anymore. And I got to say, he threatens it. He says, We can do this the easy"
An FCC chairman suggested networks could face consequences after a late-night host falsely linked a murderer to a political movement. A major station group immediately pulled the host's show, and the network suspended the program. A senator praised the suspension but criticized the FCC chairman's remarks as dangerously coercive. The senator explained that broadcast networks hold FCC licenses and must serve the public interest, and he characterized the chairman's comments as an explicit threat to revoke a network's license for perceived noncompliance with that public-interest standard.
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