#fcc-equal-time-rule

#fcc-equal-time-rule

On MS NOW's The Weekend, Bartlett, who was a State Department appointee in President Donald Trump's first administration, called talk of Trump suppression of an interview between late-night comedian Stephen Colbert and Texas State Representative James Talarico (D) a false narrative. Colbert claimed during a recent broadcast that he was told by CBS lawyers in no uncertain terms that he could not air the Talarico interview because he may violate an equal time rule with the FCC,

More specifically, Carr mused in a public notice published on Jan. 21 that the long-standing practice of exempting both evening and daytime talk shows from equal-time rules-codified in a 2006 FCC ruling in favor of Jay Leno's Tonight Show-did not necessarily apply in every case, especially when those programs were deemed to be "motivated by partisan purposes." Democratic commissioner Anna M. Gomez pointed out that the law had not actually changed

The CBS lawyers who are now trying to tell Stephen Colbert, who can be a guest on his show, work for a parent company that agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle a frivolous lawsuit by Donald Trump against 60 Minutes, which Donald Trump had no chance of winning, absolutely zero chance of winning. But those cowardly corporate lawyers agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million in what Stephen Colbert correctly called, A big, fat bribe.'