President Trump attacked ABC and NBC on social media, claiming 97% of their stories about him were "BAD STORIES" and urging the FCC to revoke licenses or levy fines. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has adopted a muscular posture aligned with those attacks, opening formal reviews of ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS. Carr has also initiated probes into diversity, equity and inclusion actions by the corporate parents of ABC and NBC, Walt Disney Co. and Comcast. Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch, has not been targeted. Carr publicly supported Trump's private lawsuits that produced $16 million settlements.
Carr has launched formal reviews of nearly all the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS. He has also initiated investigations into the diversity, equity and inclusion actions of the corporate parents of ABC and NBC the Walt Disney Co. and Comcast, respectively. One network has so far escaped his scrutiny: Fox, which is owned by Trump political ally Rupert Murdoch.
He said, without citing any evidence, that 97% of the stories they had aired about him were "BAD STORIES," and suggested they were an arm of the Democratic party. He then suggested the FCC should revoke the networks' broadcast licenses for how they cover Republicans and conservatives or, barring that, should at least make them "pay BIG" for using the airwaves.
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