June 25, 2025
With the new majority GOP, which includes the FCC boss, seeks to punish criticism, reward obedience – and twist the public.
If a federal communications commission meet On Thursday, Washington, Colombia District, has undergone a sharp transformation in just five months. After the telecommunications regime regulator, which largely avoided politics, is now on the leading edge of the President Donald Trump Crusade to turn the federal government into an instrument of its own will.
Since January, FCC Trump chief Brandan Carr has armed the agency for intimidation of information organizations and media companies, threatening the broadcast licenses and launching false investigations into his business practices and variety programs. Carr also seeks to cancel FCC rules, eliminate consumer protection and resolve further media consolidation. Last week Senate confirmed Former Congress GOP Olivia Congress three before the agency, giving the carr the majority he needed to put full shape forward from his Maga agenda.
Proponents of free speech call Carra actions as a first amendment and Federal LawBoth outrageous and unprecedented abuse of the agency’s power. Recently a two -party group of former FCC commissioners accused Carr transformation of the Agency into “Personal Censorship of the White House”. In addition to analyzing from a bad speech, the agency has already begun to offer services such as merge permits in exchange for their loyalty to the president.
“This is the most corrupt FCC in the history of the agency,” – Victor Picard, A professor Talked about media policy at Pennsylvania University Nation. “What we see now is an open behavior in the style of the mafia, where the FCC tries to deprive corporations and entire branches to hold Trump’s agenda.”
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In a boring attempt to chase PBS and NPR, long -despicable conservatives, Car earlier this year launch The investigation into the practice of collecting funds of state broadcasters, local branches of which provide reliable news, cultural programming and important information during emergencies. This is an investigation that stands for freedom of speech, called false base To set aside state media that became the basis for the recent voting of Congress abolish 1.1 billion dollars already approved corporation funding for public broadcasting that supports NPR and PBS across the country.
Carr also have threatened Comcast, owned by MSNBC, with a loss of broadcast licenses because Trump was offended by Kilmar Abreg Garcia, a man Maryland, who had admitted that they were mistaken in Salvador. And he launch CBS investigation after Trump repeatedly called To cancel the network broadcast licenses and demanded that FCC impose “maximum fines and punishment” for controversial 60 minutes broadcast.
“The idea that we are withdrawing a broadcasting license based on editorial decisions is an anti -thetetic for the first amendment,” said Anna M. Gomez, a single Democratic Commissioner FCC Nation. “We need the FCC to honor the Constitution, to fulfill the Law on Communications of Certificate Ban and resist these types of attempts to equip the agency to avenge the broadcasters.”
This is a pretty turn for Carra, which is 2021 declared The fact that “the decision of the editorial board is about what stories you need to illuminate and how to create them should be outside the reach of any government official not oriented.”
For almost a century, the FCC acted mainly on the borders of the country, regulating the country’s air, licensing television and radio stations, and also promoted competition and diversity in the media -landscape. Although FCC commissioners are nominated by the President, Congress has developed the agency to act regardless of the influence of the White House, and for the most part the FCC chiefs process That independence is as important to ensure freedom of speech and diversity in the country’s air.
Full ignorance of Trump and Carra to this principle is expressed in his campaign for coercion against 60 minutesAngered by the president with his critical coverage of his hostility to Ukraine and imperial ambitions to Greenland. In an obvious attempt to strengthen Trump bog A $ 20 billion lawsuit for the challenged segment of Kamala Harris last summer, Carr launched an investigation into the CBS and slowly conducted the approval of the parent company Paramount with Skydance Media. Paramount, in turn, began influence 60 minutes News lighting that led to retirement of two top executives.
Car, who recently accepted clothing Golden Spile-Schift Galava, also doing its involvement as a loyal Maga Minion from exert pressure Media giants such as Comcast and Disney to join the Trump Cross and abandon the Dei hiring policy. He threatened To block offers about merge from companies that will not. When the Agala obliged To win the approval of its border communications $ 20 billion.
The Trump’s FCC attack on the first amendment was so shocking that he distracted Carra’s extreme preventive business, against the consumer agenda. In April Carr launch What he called the “large -scale deregulation initiative”, which the Free Press group called “a brazen attempt to cancel consumer guarantees on a wide scale for the convenience of the industry.” Pro-Consumer FCC policy is a block of wishes with a big business that includes eliminating broadcasts and a set of truth requirementsRoll back restrictions on the scam -mobacles and texts as well as watering digital discrimination rules that encourage a fair broadband deployment.
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Earlier this month is carr launch Products aimed at eliminating the property restrictions on the FCC, which limit how many TV channels a single corporate organization can have. These rules designed to develop diversity, competition and local service in the National Media -Tobean, have long been in cross -conspilagies such as Nexstar, Sinclair and Grey Television, which together that together control 40 percent of all local information stations in the US. Community of public interests warn that the abolition of these rules will allow several and without the fact that the powerful corporate giants later consolidation at a time when there will be independent local news appear across the country.
Last week, the confidence in the trust violated the long -term PRCC practice, in which the president simultaneously nominated candidates on both sides to fill out the vacancies in the agency. Given the illegal Trump shooting From the two Democratic Commissioners to the FTC, supporters of public interests warn that Trump may fired Gomez left by the Democratic Commissioner FCC, while rise Recently left the former Chief of Staff Nathan Sisington, 31-year-old Idoologists Gavin Wok, who once declared that Trump’s re -election will be “time for retribution”.
The wax will fit straight. If President Trump behave Like the Mafia boss, then Car acts as a Maga human rights activist, threatening the enemy of Trump’s media, simultaneously in favor of services for corporate interests, paying little to the rule of law or public interests. This is a familiar Trump formula: a federal government weapon to punish criticism, rewarding obedience – and twist the US public.
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