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FCC seeks to shift power from national programmers to local broadcasters in public interest push

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr proposes shifting media influence from national networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC back to local ...
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FCC’s Brendan Carr Says Late-Night Is Dying Because Stephen Colbert, Others, Have Gone From ‘Court Jesters’ to Anti-Trump ‘Court Clerics’

They stopped going for joke lines and laugh lines and they started going for applause lines,’ the FCC chairman says.

Brendan Carr Defends Timing of Paramount Merger Approval: ‘We Ran Normal Course’ | Video

Brendan Carr defended the timing of federal approval for the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media, with the Federal ...

Brendan Carr declares victory over the First Amendment

Turns out a new Fairness Doctrine is just fine under Trump’s FCC.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Probes Comcast Relations With NBC Stations

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to Comcast on Tuesday announcing a probe of the company's relations with NBC ...
Tampa Free Press on MSN1d

FCC Chairman: ‘Legacy Media’ Suffering From ‘Credibility Crisis’

Brendan Carr, in Fox News Interview, Links Declining Trust to Trump's Challenge to 'Gatekeepers' and Sees Market Speaking in Colbert's Cancellation In an interview on FOX News Channel's MediaBuzz on ...
LGBTQ Nation on MSN1d

CBS agreement with FCC includes hiring a “bias monitor” in “major attack” on free speech

CBS parent company Paramount recently reached an $8.4 billion merger agreement with Skydance Media, a deal the current ...

FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s meddling in broadcast journalism contradicts his own avowed views

As a minority FCC member during the Bush administration, Carr condemned government interference with newsroom decisions.
Crooks and Liars7dOpinion

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Is A Right Wing Hack, Of Course

Brendan Carr is the worst type of hack to put in charge of anything. He is not in charge of content being produced by all ...

FCC's Brendan Carr has driven away from championing free speech

It's clear that the principles Carr once defended during the Biden administration included unspoken political exceptions.
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Fox News Host Confronts Trump’s FCC Chair On Claim That He Wants ‘Fair’ News Coverage: Does That Mean ‘More Favorable to This President?’

Fox News host Howard Kurtz confronted FCC Chair Brendan Carr on whether he's seeking "fair" news coverage — or coverage "more favorable" to President Trump. The post Fox News Host Confronts Trump’s ...
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‘Press Freedom’ Organization Goes After FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, for His Efforts To Challenge Liberal Media Bias, Demands He Be Disbarred

The Freedom of the Press Foundation — a controversial group best known for its alliance with Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks — ...