The Federal Communications Commission has reinstated grievances against three media outlets after they were scrapped in the waning days of the Biden administration.
Past FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, dismissed all four issues last year, only to see most of them reinstated shortly after she left.
The CBS situation relates to problems that the network’s 60 Minutes edited an appointment with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, with the Center for American Rights accusing CBS of “significant and intentional information distortion ” designed to aid her plan.
The ABC problem stems from the one argument Harris had with President Donald Trump, arguing that editors favored the Democrat while choosing to violently fact-check Trump.
The NBC event dates to an event of Saturday Night Live that aired the trip before Election Day, during which Harris made an appearance but Trump was not given the opportunity. Carr complained at the time that NBC had broken FCC laws.
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The now-dormant Fox complaint was only tangentially related to the 2024 election, as the Media and Democracy Project argued that Fox News owners Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch lacked the “character ” to hold a broadcast license for its Philadelphia affiliate, according to Deadline. It will not be brought up.
Carr has spoken out in favor of Trump since becoming a member of the FCC in 2017, saying earlier this week that the new president left “the swamp” in “shock and awe ” after Trump announced he was uprooting diversity, equity, and inclusion activities.
