During the Kimmel controversy, Carr said he was trying "to empower local TV stations to serve the needs of the local communities." The FCC subsequently opened a proceeding titled, "Empowering Local Broadcast TV Stations to Meet Their Public Interest Obligations: Exploring Market Dynamics Between National Programmers and Their Affiliates." The FCC invited public comments on whether to adopt regulations "in light of the changes in the broadcast market that have led to anticompetitive leverage and behavior by large networks."
Team Murdoch's approach has several frontws: Find as many angry drivers as possible, sprinkle in some business owners to complain (without evidence) about toll cutting into their bottom lines or getting passed on to customers, top it all off with some extremely bad data analysis - then use it all to put pressure on Gov. Hochul, who has demonstrated a willingness to make policy decisions based on the paper's fact-averse campaigns against the toll.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the British public broadcaster, the BBC, for $1bn in the latest of a series of actions he is taking against major news outlets. Trump's lawyers said the BBC violated Florida defamation law by editing a video clip in a 2024 Panorama documentary aired just one week before the November presidential election to give the impression that he had actively encouraged his supporters to riot at Capitol Hill in January 2021 after he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden.
Terry Moran's a moron, O'Reilly declared as Bush brought up how aggressively President Donald Trump targets his political enemies. Really? He was so polite to the president, Bush said. I don't care what he was. He masqueraded as a reporter. This is what bothers me about guys like Moran. He masqueraded. He told everybody at ABC, I'm a reporter. That's my job. I'll bring you facts. Well, look at him now. He's a raving leftist, O'Reilly argued.
They put out something, Say today, the costs are up,' the president continued. They feed it to the anchors of ABC, CBS, and NBC, and a lot of other, CNN et etc. It's like a standard I'll never forget they used a word like manufactured.' Do you remember the word manufactured? It's a manufactured economy.' Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in, Manufactured.' They do exactly what they say.
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I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt, the president replied, before warning he could walk off the interview when pressed further. The extraordinary admission ricocheted across social and political media in recent days covered by MSNBC, CNN, and ABC even prompting a blistering autopen jibe on The View. Fox News, however, remains an exception and has given the moment barely a shrug.
Hestermann's study sought to answer similar questions: "How is the perception of violence changing? How is the view of the suspects and their origins changing?" He describes different reactions he observed using the example of two attacks that took place in Munich and Mannheim in 2025: "Munich: A young Afghan man allegedly drives into a crowd, killing two people. Shortly afterwards in Mannheim: A German man also drives into a crowd, killing two random victims."
As violence against Muslims becomes public spectacle, India's majoritarian politics has turned hate into entertainment and silence into complicity. Every morning in today's India begins with two parallel news cycles. One, broadcast on television screens, is carefully curated: Panel debates on Pakistan, Hindu pride, and endless theatre about a new India. The other, untelevised but deeply real, is the daily routine of Muslims being lynched, harassed, jailed, and demonised.
They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. 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, he added.
ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! is nothing short of a political execution carried out under the banner of corporate cowardice and wrapped in a sudden "gotcha" culture that has sinisterly sprung from the murder of Charlie Kirk. This slap at Kimmel is how censorship takes root. It's when a late-night comic delivers a stinging critique. The "informant society" that is howls, then Donald Trump's censorship flexes its arm, and a network folds.
In a video released by the White House earlier in the day, President Donald Trump addressed Zarutska's murder by declaring that We cannot allow a depraved criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction and death throughout our country. We have to respond with force and strength. We have to be vicious, just like they are. It's the only thing they understand, he added.
