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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in an interview on Monday if he and the president Donald Trump I believe they are “out of the ordinary”.
The Wall Street Journal described Carl as a maverick, saying he had embraced Trump’s “performer instinct” to keep broadcasters accountable. Carl said while previous FCC chairs were generally reluctant to control large corporations, he would get a broadcast license from any export he believes is misconduct in the “public interest.”
“Broadcasting license is not a sacred cow,” Carl tells the exit.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said he would not shy away from punishing broadcasters engaged in misconduct. (John McDonnell/Getty)
Carr, who has worked at the FCC since 2017, said the agency is “completely consistent with President Trump’s agenda” that he is running for.
He said Trump had set the tone for the administration’s attitude toward media companies, saying: “President Trump ran directly on traditional mainstream media and he smashed an exterior wall to think they were gatekeepers of truth.”
Carl launched two investigations into NBCuniversal’s parent company Comcast, after Trump accused NBCuniversal of showing Democrats’ bias.
The FCC has been investigating Comcast’s Diversity Policy. Carl said in April, NBC News and MSNBC parents covering high-profile deportations were “misleading the American public.”
Carl said in July that the FCC will study Comcast’s relationship with NBC radio and branches and whether its programming decisions “mostly reflect the needs and interests of its communities.”
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Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
As the Wall Street Journal noted, Carl said through the 1934 law: “Since a given broadcast network is granted radio waves specifically for its own actions, it needs to operate in the ‘public interest, convenience and necessity.”
The report noted that the only time the FCC revoked the company’s broadcast license was in 1971, when Mississippi Station defended segregation. Carl said he had no problems today, either.
The current FCC chair attempts to emerge as an agenda independent of the president, Carl said he is tilting.
“We are completely consistent with President Trump’s agenda that is running for,” he told the newspaper.
Critics believe Carl is politicizing the work of the FCC.
“It seems to be part of a political movement against the president’s view as an enemy of the president,” said Robert Corn-Revere, chief adviser for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), who argued to the Wall Street Journal that it violated the agency’s responsibility to protect free speech.
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Signs were seen at the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. on August 29, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
D-Mass. Senator Elizabeth Warren said in July that the FCC’s endorsement of the merger between CBS parents Paramount Global and Skydance Media “looks like corruption, simple and simple.” Weeks before the merger, Paramount agreed to pay Trump $16 million settlement In his election intervention lawsuit, editors about CBS News’ “60 Minutes” interview.
Skydance also promised to appoint Ombudsman In Paramount, “assessment of complaints of bias” and will not create new diversity policies.
Carl defended the FCC’s handling of the transaction, saying the merger review followed the rules and noted that the Ombudsman reported to the CBS rather than the FCC.
The FCC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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