By Max Tani, Semafor.com, 3-6-25 Democrats are trying to rein in the Federal Communications Commission following a spate of regulatory actions against broadcasters that President Donald Trump doesn’t like. On March 4, Democratic Sens. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Ed Markey of Massachusetts announced they are introducing the [...]
By Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 2-22-25 The Associated Press claimed in a Feb. 21 lawsuit that the Trump administration broke the law by banning AP journalists from White House events after it refused to adopt President Donald Trump’s renaming of the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Trump signed an executive order on [...]
By Andrew DeMillo, apnews.com, 2-19-25 A Mississippi judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor and city leaders after the officials sued, sparking complaints from press advocates that it violates the First Amendment. Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin issued the restraining order against the Clarksdale Press Register on Feb. 19 in connection [...]
By Jeremy Barr, washingtonpost.com, 2-13-25 NBCUniversal and its parent company, Comcast, were the latest media companies to receive word of an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission. In a letter sent to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts on Feb. 12, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wrote that the FCC’s enforcement bureau will probe whether the company was [...]
By Meg James and Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1-31-25 President Trump’s new Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, this week demanded CBS turn over the full, unedited transcript of its “60 Minutes” interview in October with former Vice President Kamala Harris, including film footage from the different camera angles. That interview provoked the ire [...]
By Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com, 1-30-25FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS in a move that Democrats described as an attempt to intimidate the media.“I am writing to inform you that I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation regarding the airing of NPR and PBS programming across [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck and Naomi Nix, washingtonpost.com, 1-30-25Days after the overnight success of Chinese chatbot DeepSeek wiped a trillion dollars off the value of U.S. tech stocks, software CEOs are telling investors that the artificial intelligence revolution is still on track.On earnings calls Jan. 29, the leaders of Meta and Microsoft said they still [...]
By Janna Brancolini, Daily Beast, 1-23-25 President Donald Trump called for the MSNBC cable news network to be shuttered in an evening post on Truth Social. Reacting to reports that CNN is planning to lay off hundreds of employees amidst a ratings crisis, Trump wrote on his social media platform: “MSDNC is even worse [...]
By Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 1-23-25 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reopening a number of complaints against broadcast outlets that were dismissed by the previous administration just days before President Trump took office this week. The agency said it would again consider a slew of cases against CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, [...]
By Tom Butts, TVtechnology.com, 1-16-25 With one day left in her term, outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel leveled heavy criticism at the incoming Trump administration over the First Amendment and denied four current complaints filed against broadcasters. The complaints against WPVI Philadelphia, WCBS New York, WNBC New York, and WTXF Philadelphia had all [...]