Brendan Car turns the Federal Communications Committee into the monitoring machine in Maga

The official agenda Federal Communications Committee An open meeting This week looked well with its regular efforts. There were broadcast elements, satellites, a cute 37-Gigaherz, and the newly proposed bases that could help prevent Robocalls. In the government practiced by Kapuki from these events, the commissioners spoke, and the proposals were voted unanimously, and the Board Chairman Brendan Car, who was appointed by Donald Trump, was running things smoothly, although his behavior was somewhat loud. The observer may conclude that despite the new administration, it was customary for the Federal Communications Committee.

Then the regular press came as a question and answer. From ever politely, journalists who investigated a card from his recent moves – such as using the strength of his role in investigating news organizations to broadcast stories only to make Donald Trump unhappy. It is worth noting that Car has launched an investigation on how to liberate CBS 60 minutes An interview and then the candidate Kamala Harris. Although there is no evidence of journalistic miscarriage, Trump demanded that “the network must lose its license” on the story. He also recommended other networks to lose their subsidiaries “because they are corrupt like CBS – perhaps worse!”

This was before Trump returned to power, Jessica Rosenorssel came out, then the Federal Communications Committee chair. She noted that the agency did not cancel the licenses because the politician did not like how he was covered. Before Rosenorssal left his post, the complaint was rejected. But after Trump installed the Car Karrag, the Federal Communications Committee in late January, he removed the case from the Mazrouka Fund and the investigation began. Many to follow Trump on January 20 Executive order A claim, “There is no government employee, employee, or a federal agent who participates in or facilitates any behavior that would shorten the freedom to express freedom of expression for any American citizen.”

Car’s response to the questions about CBS at the open meeting was: “All options remain on the table, until the” death penalty “for the network broadcasting license. He also pointed out that the NBC network and other networks that covered the issue of legal immigrants who were accidentally deported to the Salvadori prison may be in a similar problem. Its content is in the public interest.

The problem with this – well there a lot One of the problems with this – it is clear that “the public interest” here is explained as “things that Donald Trump loves.” While the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) can issue penalties for “distorting news”, this term refers to the terrible and fraudulent reports consciously. CBS condition and network covering for deportation is not even in the same universe as this type of violation. “This is one of the tools that the administration uses to monitor the media and control the media, and to punish anyone who dares to speak against our government,” the remaining democrats in the committee, Anna Gomez, told me this week.

Not only Democrats who are concerned about this. In March, the far-right Crusaders Grovers Norkuist-the man who once said he wanted to dump the government in the bathtub-from the super conservatives who I fell offCar is pleading with the refusal of the case, saying that it “will constitute an organizational transgression and a progressive precedent that can take place by FCCS in the future.” O shouted, it is present FCC we have to worry! When Carr tried to explain his complaints about news coverage, he said they are all related to enabling local news instead of large networks. But Gomez told me that the stations themselves suffer from panic. “I spoke to local broadcasters throughout the country, and they feel nervous that they are dragged before the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) based on the content of their coverage,” she says.