How Trump’s FCC chairman is stoking the culture war
Since becoming FCC chairman in late January, Carr has repeatedly poked the corporate owners of ABC, CBS and NBC — networks the president dislikes.
Conservatives have said they believe major networks suffer from extreme liberal bias and an intolerance toward opposing points of view. That has harmed America and resulted in a plummeting public trust in national news outlets, they assert, adding that FCC intervention may be justified.
Carr’s critics, however, said that dangling the FCC’s enforcement authority over broadcasters in the name of protecting free speech does just the opposite.
Amid President Trump’s fusillades against the media, a recent strike stood out:
Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr took aim this month at cable giant Comcast, which owns NBC and liberal-skewing MSNBC, in a message on X over the tilt of the news coverage on its TV channels.
