NEW: Media Outlets Panic After Trump’s Pick For FCC Chair Vows To Dismantle ‘The Censorship Cartel’
President-elect Donald Trump is tapping FCC commissioner Brendan Carr — who has been outspoken about the epidemic of partisan media outlets and their attempts to influence elections — to chair the agency in a move that has mainstream media outlets on edge.
“I am pleased to announce that Commissioner Brendan Carr will be Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Commissioner Carr currently serves as the senior Republican on the FCC. Before that, he was the FCC’s General Counsel,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday night.
The president-elect noted that he first nominated Carr to the position in 2017. “His current term runs through 2029 and, because of his great work, I will now be designating him as permanent Chairman.”
The appointment has sent shockwaves throughout the media landscape, as Carr has previously detailed a number of monumental moves that would roll back the reach of partisan media outlets.
Last month — when CBS News was accused of editing Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview with 60 Minutes — Carr raised the alarm over the severity of the allegations and called for a thorough investigation. The network has been under intense scrutiny after the network aired two separate broadcasts with different answers from Vice President Harris to the same question. Interviewer Bill Whitaker asked whether Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is “listening” to the Biden-Harris administration.
Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone.
This is what many Americans will now see. pic.twitter.com/H4w7btDv6x
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 8, 2024
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“The FCC does not regulate, or really even respond to, allegations of politically unfavorable coverage or legitimate editorial discretion,” Simington wrote in a statement to the Daily Caller. “The recent complaint regarding WCBS-TV raises a fully different set of issues regarding whether or not coverage was intentionally distorted: reporting that something was said in response to a question that literally was not. I don’t know whether that’s true, but it’s a different issue.”
Simington further laid out steps a Trump-appointed commissioner could take in a second term, ideas that Carr wholeheartedly agreed with.
When CBS and its subsidiaries go to renew their broadcasting licenses, a Republican-led FCC could place certain restrictions on a renewal agreement, including a stipulation that the “60 Minutes” transcript would be released, an FCC source told the Daily Caller.
“Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft & others have played central roles in the censorship cartel. The Orwellian named NewsGuard along with ‘fact checking’ groups & ad agencies helped enforce one-sided narratives,” Carr wrote in an X post earlier this week. “The censorship cartel must be dismantled.”
This is what Trump’s pick for FCC chair, Brendan Carr, was doing a couple of days ago: https://t.co/vnTYvhC84u
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 18, 2024
How the incoming FCC chair is describing his mission: https://t.co/meh7ksiZNu
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 18, 2024
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