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fromThe Verge
1 week agoYes, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension was government censorship
This framing is transparently false. ABC's suspension of Kimmel was the result of an explicit threat from President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, aimed at Disney and companies that worked with it. The move was effective because of the FCC's authority to regulate broadcast TV and, perhaps more importantly, to approve communications mergers in a hyper-consolidated landscape.
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fromNieman Lab
1 week ago"We can do this the easy way or the hard way": Trump's FCC again uses the threat of its regulatory powers to push a critic off the air
Brendan Carr leverages FCC merger and licensing authority to pressure media companies, extracting concessions and silencing critics.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week agoMika Brzezinski Torches FCC Chair With His Own Words Defending Satire' and Press Freedom
He's long spoken out against government censorship and for the freedom of speech. In 2019. Carr posted on social media. Quote. Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in. The name of the public interest'.' In 2021, he wrote. Quote, A newsroom's decision about what stories to cover and how to frame them should be beyond the reach of any government official.'
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