FCC chair Brendan Carr says media were ‘lied to’ over Stephen Colbert controversy
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Carr says the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an enforcement action into ABC’s the View

Carr says the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an enforcement action into ABC’s the View

The chair of the US’s top media regulator claimed on Wednesday that journalists had been tricked into covering claims by the late-night host Stephen Colbert that he had been blocked by his network from interviewing a Texas Senate candidate.

Brendan Carr, the avowedly pro-Trump chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), made his comments after Colbert accused the Trump administration and CBS of censorship.

CBS has countered Colbert’s claims in a statement, saying it had not blocked him from interviewing James Talarico, a Texas Democrat, but had merely provided legal guidance that such an interview might trigger equal time regulations that would require him to also platform Talarico’s campaign rivals.

  • JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    The big irony of the whole situation to me is that getting colbert cancelled and trying to silence him and other talk show hosts is starting to backfire spectacularly.
    You have given colberts show a death sentence and then tried to back him into a corner and he has decided that theres nothing left to lose, he doesnt give a shit about being level headed, reasonable and keeping the peace (unlike conservative media) or tip-toeing around the fascists, he is unleashed and is going to tell these fuckwits what he really thinks and throwing out some wicked barbs.

    By trying to control the people they dont like they have gone full streisand affect and launched Talarico into the zeitgeist, politicians only dream of this kind of viral marketing for their campaign and the tide is going to turn, once the american people realise they actually have some NotShit™ options out there they might elect more and more people who are actually going to represent them and not the values/pockets of the elite.

    Good, go after all the left comedians and media personalities, get them pissed off, lets see what they do when they are off the leash and start giving you back some of the vehemence the conservative media has been spewing all this time.