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WaPo Piece on Brendan Carr

One more comment on this article from yesterday:

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Carr: Empowering Local Broadcasters and Preserving AM Radio - Radio Ink

In prepared testimony distributed ahead of his appearance Wednesday at a Senate Commerce Committee FCC Oversight Hearing, its first since 2022, Brendan Carr applauded Committee Chairman Ted Cruz and Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey for their leadership on the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act."
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My problem with Carr's view on "empowering local broadcasters" is he's selective about it. Public radio stations are mostly all locally owned. NPR doesn't own any stations. Local public stations aren't required to carry any NPR programming. Yet Carr was in favor of cutting federal funding for public broadcasting. Taking away money doesn't empower local broadcasting. It inhibits it.
 
Brendan Carr told Breitbart that the president "reshaped the media ecosystem." He describes it as a "disruption."

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Carr Says Trump ‘Reshaped’ Media Ecosystem As Local Broadcast Role Grows.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says President Trump has reshaped the relationship between political leaders and the news media by directly confronting national outlets and bypassing traditional gatekeepers. Speaking at a
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The question is: Is that what we want politicians to do? Shouldn't they focus on letting us live our lives safely, and let the media do it's own job? Then again, what do you expect from a government run by media stars? He's complaining that people don't trust the national news media, but that also includes Fox News and Breitbart. They're contributing to lack of public trust too. But he gives them a pass.

He's also proud of ending diversity initiatives at the FCC. That way, we have more white men in media, instead of encouraging women and minorities.
 
Carr is now threatening TV licenses over Iran War coverage.

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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Says TV Broadcasters Must ‘Correct Course’ or ‘They Will Lose Their Licenses,’ Citing Trump’s Outrage Over Iran War Coverage

FCC chairman Brendan Carr wrote on X Saturday that broadcasters need to “correct course” or risk losing their broadcasting licenses, citing Donald Trump’s recent displeasure with the mainstream media’...
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The president complains about newspapers. Carr takes that as a reason to threaten broadcasters.

The FCC has no jurisdiction over newspapers. Local broadcasters really aren't covering this war.

My sense is Carr doesn't watch local TV, so he doesn't know what they're doing.
 
Chairman Carr's attacks on broadcast media were a topic during the NAB convention in Las Vegas. FCC commissioner Anna Gomez was part of the panel:

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Gomez Panel At NAB Insists Carr's Broadcast Threats Won't Hold - Radio Ink

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez took another opportunity to highlight what she calls an administration bent on "censorship and control" on Monday, but the lone Democrat Commissioner was selective with her other comments at NAB Show 2026.
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Gomez: Lack Of Broadcaster Pushback Shows FCC’s Chilling Effect Is Working.

One year after warning of a “weaponization” of FCC rules, Anna Gomez returned to Las Vegas arguing regulatory threats — not action — are chilling broadcaster speech. With no industry
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The conclusion was that broadcasters should be willing to take Carr's "investigations" to court, where chances are good that they will win.
 
Brendan Carr has "Lunch with the FT":


In Carr’s telling, he is trying to save local journalism. For decades, he explains, local broadcasters acted as intermediaries between communities and national media companies. “Now it is just New York and Hollywood foie gras getting shoved down through the local broadcasters into local communities whether they like it or not,” he says.

Local newspapers are becoming “the ghost of Christmas past”. If local broadcast television disappears too, there will be little left to hold regional power accountable. “I want to be able to tell my grandkids,” he says, “that I did everything I could to make sure that local news and local reporting and local broadcast TV survived.”
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Miss Tuned said:
Brendan Carr has "Lunch with the FT":

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In Carr’s telling, he is trying to save local journalism. For decades, he explains, local broadcasters acted as intermediaries between communities and national media companies. “Now it is just New York and Hollywood foie gras getting shoved down through the local broadcasters into local communities whether they like it or not,” he says.

Local newspapers are becoming “the ghost of Christmas past”. If local broadcast television disappears too, there will be little left to hold regional power accountable. “I want to be able to tell my grandkids,” he says, “that I did everything I could to make sure that local news and local reporting and local broadcast TV survived.”
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Trump Goons Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission on What His ‘Obituary’ Will Say

“I got my time, I got my shot, I took my shot,” he said.
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Here is more on Carr.

OK but Chairman Carr can brag all he wants but we keep running into this about him such as controlling the press pool, controlling speech on the national level when it came to protecting the White House.

I doubt Chairman Carr cared about local media/journalism given his record of going after Disney owned ABC Affiliates related to two talk shows like The View and Jimmy Kimmel all to do whatever the Trump Administration demands of him.
 
EMR_for_all said:
With all the jokes David Letterman told about presidents, for years, he apparently never had FCC issues
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Of course, at the time, the FCC was doing it's statutory function.

Today, that's a bit of a myth, isn't it?
 


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