FCC Trump’s head restores complaints against ABC, NBC, CBS

It was expected that President Trump would head the Federal Commission on Communications, Brendan Carr, would complicate the life of media organizations that disagree with the plans of the Commander-in-Chief.

In his first week, heading a powerful agency that oversees national communications, Carr did exactly this by reviving complaints about the alleged liberal bias of the media. During the election campaign, Trump opposed certain broadcasters, stating that the Federal Commission for Communications should select their licenses for speech.

ABC, NBC and CBS felt Trump’s contempt.

On Wednesday, Carr resumed complaints against these three. One aimed at the NBC for the fact that four days before the November elections in the Saturday Evening Evening, the former Vice President of Kamala Harris starred, saying that the network did not provide equal access to Trump. The second complaint concerned as ABC News is a September debate between Trump and Harris. Trump complained about it ABC anchors were unfair to him.

The FCC President Jessica Rosenwossel, Democrat, rejected four complaints over the last week of her stay in office, referring to the protection of broadcasters in the first amendment. In addition to complaints about ABC and NBC, she abandoned complaints about CBS for editing Harris 60 minutes interview, as well as liberal requests to impose sanctions on Rupert Murdock with Fox Corp. And his son Laclana for strengthening Fox News information. Trump’s election lies in 2020.

Although Carr agreed with the deviation of the complaint against the Murdoks, he quickly returned to the list of the commission.

Daniel Sur, President of the Conservative Center for Chicago Rights, who has complained about CBS, NBC and ABC channels about media bias, said he felt a “legitimate Lazar” after a week change in FCC.

“I congratulate the chairman of the chairman to restore complaints and make sure that the commission will fulfill the proper prudence to consider that in our opinion, they are very serious concern about bias,” Sur said in an interview with The Times. “We are trying to return to these broadcasters to restore public confidence to them.”

Karr, a 46-year-old lawyer from Washington, the District of Columbia, who has worked in the commission since 2017, also denied the Initiatives of the Federal Commission on Communications on Diversity, Justice and Inclusion. He signed an order to exclude inclusion from the FCC strategic plan and withdraw funds for diversity programs from the agency’s budget.

“The leadership of President Trump in this matter will bring great results for the American people,” Karr said in a statement. “Today I announce that I stop the FCC Dei’s promotion and focus the agency’s work on the competent execution of the FCC mission, as is defined by Congress.”

These steps have put FCC at the center of acute discussion as to whether Trump would apply his powers to punish the media that he does not like. Some Media experts are concerned that Trump’s rhetoric, combined with federal regulatory organs, can have a terrible effect, which will lead to less critical coverage in the press.

CBS and her parent company Paramount Global feel pressure.

Last fall, Trump abandoned the planned interview in an interview with CBS, denying the magazine plans to check the facts of his applications. After Harris, a democratic party candidate appeared in the program, Trump complained mounted a clip with her interview Put it in a better light. The network showed how Harris gives different answers to questions about the efforts of President Baiden Presidential Administration wars in the Middle East.

Trump quickly filed a $ 10 billion lawsuit against CBS through a clip, calling him “party and illegal acts of election and vote.” The first amendment experts called Trump’s claim.

CBS News denies what Harris has manipulated. CBS reported that 60 minutes producers gave an excerpt of Harris’s interview with Sunday Morning Program of the Face The Nation, which “used a longer section of its answer than (what was) in” 60 minutes “. The same question. The same answer. But the rest of the answer. ”

“When we edit any interview, whether politics, athlete or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and relevant,” CBS said. “Part of her answer for 60 minutes was shorter.”

This problem has created a headache for Paramount, which is looking for federal approval for its proposed Skydance Media absorption David Ellison worth $ 8 billion. Some analysts expect the FCC complaint to be an obstacle to Paramount and Skydance, as two firms seek to finish merger this spring by giving Ellison’s control to one of Hollywood’s oldest film studios and networks.

Earlier the Wall Street Journal reported that Paramount management is considering the possibility of resolving the case facilitate merger. Paramount and Skydance refused comments.

After the election, Carr with FCC said Fox News that he would carefully study the unfinished paramount and Skydance.

As part of his complaint against CBS, the Surah Center, Sura, also asked FCC to review Skydance relations with Chinese technological and TenCent, which invested in Ellison. Some in Congress called for additional viewing.

Congressman John Mulenar (R-Mich.), Chairman of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives of China, said on Wednesday that the Committee of the Ministry of Finance on Foreign Investment in the United States should consider this issue.

“We have heard from many Hollywood leaders about unrestrained self -censorship aimed at deserving the Communist Party of China,” said Michigan Republican. “Given that this month alone, the Ministry of Defense has determined the Tencent by a Chinese military company, CFIUS should carefully study the proposed merger.”

NBC tried to quench Trump’s anger due to Harris’s appearance on Saturday’s Live Evening, giving him free airtime during a NASCAR and a well -known football match to try to equalize the game conditions.

Walt Disney Co. Television Station. ABC in Philadelphia was the target of the third complaint of the Center for the Rights of America. The WPVI-TV station transmits September debate on ABC News has visited a lot of peopleSingle confrontation of Harris and Trump.

As part of a separate dispute last month Disney agreed to pay $ 1 million for Trump’s lawsuit and donate Another $ 15 million For the Trump Future Presidential Library to settle the claim that has broken Trump ABC News And anchor George Stefanopulos After the journalist stated during an interview on the air that the jury of the civil court found Trump “guilty of rape” in a civil case. The jury actually determined that Trump is responsible for “sexual violence”.

This settlement has caused an alarm to supporters of the press. Some believed that Disney quickly settled the case of Stefanopoulos to earn the commitment of Trump’s new administration.

In his statement, Rosenorsl said in his statement this month that the FCC should not be the President’s “police.”

She did not clarify her decision to reject the complaint on Fox.

After that, Murdock’s criticism filed a complaint in FCC Fox News paid $ 787.5 million for settling a slander claim Dominion Voting Systems because of a lie spread on Fox News about her voting machines during the 2020 elections. The group claimed that a 93-year-old magnate from Australia and his son Laclan, executive director FOX, did not have the moral qualities necessary to obtain licenses for broadcasting.

Patrick Webr, Acting by the Head of the US Federal Communications Bureau, wrote in Wednesday that Rosenworcel deviations for ABC, CBS and NBC were “issued prematurely on the basis of insufficient investigative protocol regarding the specific behavior of the station in question ”.

Despite the actions, it is unclear whether the complaints will really be promoted.

Representatives of the FCC Bureau should now investigate them. In the end, the full composition of the commission would vote for any compulsory measures.

The former high -ranking official of the Federal Communications Commission Blair Levin, and now the New Street Research analyst, wrote on Thursday in a note for customers that the government rarely revokes a television station license.

“Despite the President’s boasting that companies have to lose their licenses, we believe that the risk of this is extremely low,” Levin said in the report.