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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.
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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.
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.
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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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 ...
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FCC Opens Investigation Into Comcast’s Relations With Affiliates
In a letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, FCC chair Brendan Carr expressed concerns that NBC and other networks are ...
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr investigates NBC over affiliate deals
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has opened a formal inquiry into Comcast’s NBC Universal over co ...
Jon Stewart Slams Right-Wingers For Trying To 'Create Rules That They Would Never Follow'
Among the many reasons that the Dallas Mavericks made the fateful decision to trade megastar Luka Doncic was his seeming ...
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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 — ...
Fired ABC Journalist Has Surprising Epiphany About Media Bias
Former ABC News Senior Correspondent Terry Moran admitted in a July 29 Substack post that his previous employer is “almost ...
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 ...