Formal program Federal Communication Commission open meeting This week, it seemed good with normal careful activities. In the satellite broadband connector there were elements, a license framework for the lower 37-GigaHertz spectrum and newly proposed rules that could assist block RoboCalls. In the practiced government Kabuki, the commissioners said from these events, the proposals were unanimously voted, and the chairman of Brendan Carr, appointed by Donald Trump, handled the case, although his behavior was quite boisterous. The observer may come to the conclusion that despite the fresh administration it was a business as usual in FCC.
Then there were ordinary questions and answers. Be glad that Beat journalists have examined Carr about the recent movements he made – like using the strength of his role to study press organizations in the field of emissions of stories, which simply make Donald Trump dissatisfied. In particular, Carr has launched a CBS probe 60 minutes Interview with the then candidate Kamala Harris. Despite any evidence of journalistic abuse, Trump demanded that the network “lost his license” over history. He also recommended other networks, they lost their associate entities “because they are just as corrupt as CBS – maybe even worse!”
It was before Trump returned to power, and Jessica Rosenworcel, and then the chairwoman of FCC, rejected him. She noticed that the agency did not cancel the license because the politician did not like how he was covered. Before Rosenworkcel left the office, the complaint was rejected. But after Trump installed Carr as the chairman of FCC at the end of January, he took the case out of the trash and began the investigation. So much for tracking on January 20 Trump executive order The demand “no officer of the federal government, the employee or agent does not engage or facilitate any behavior that would unconstitutional the freedom of speech of every American citizen.”
Carra’s answer to questions about CBS at the open meeting was: “All options remain on the table”, even the “death penalty” of the license for network transmission. He also pointed out that NBC and other networks that included a legal immigrant case incorrectly deported to prison in Salvadoria may have similar problems. His justification consisted in the fact that because transmission stores have exclusive access to their public fans, their content must be in the public interest. If they don’t like it, he said, they can be podcasters.
Problem with this – what is there plot trouble with this – it is obvious that “public interest” here is interpreted as “things Donald Trump likes”. While FCC may issue sanctions regarding “message distortion”, this term refers to a gross and consciously false reporting. CBS case and network coverage are not even in the same universe as this kind of bad. “This is one of the tools that the administration uses to censor and control the media and to punish anyone who dars to speak against our government,” the remaining democrat from the commission, Anna Gomez, told me.
Not only democrats are concerned about this. In March, the far-right crusader of Grover Norquist-Facet, who once said that he wants to drown a government in a bathtub-was among the ultra-conservative who I signed letteR Belief Carr to dismiss the case, saying that “this would constitute an excessive regulatory organization and precedent proceedings that can be armed by future FCC.” Dude, it is current FCC We have to worry! When Carr tried to explain his complaints about the relationship with messages, he said that it was about strengthening the position of local messages as opposed to enormous networks. But Gomez told me that the stations themselves are terrified. “I talked to local broadcasters throughout the country and are nervous that they will be dragged before FCC based on the content of their reach,” he says.