By Taylor Telford, washingtonpost.com, 3-21-25 The Federal Communications Commission is prepared to block mergers and acquisitions involving companies that continue promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said March 21. “Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious [...]
By Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 3-14-25 President Trump railed against the media on March 14, suggesting some of the actions of the press be deemed illegal and should be investigated. In a speech at the Department of Justice (DOJ), during which Trump railed against people and entities that he claims have targeted him, he said [...]
By Cameron Coats, RadioInk.com, 3-12-25 The FCC has opened a public comment period as part of a broad effort aimed at identifying and eliminating what it describes as unnecessary or outdated regulations within the communications industry. The initiative aligns with a series of executive orders issued by President Trump, directing administrative agencies to reassess [...]
By Sara Fischer, Axios.com, 3-6-25 CBS on March 6 filed two motions to dismiss an amended complaint to the lawsuit filed against it by President Trump before he took office last October. The original lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas, alleges CBS engaged in “voter interference” in its [...]
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 [...]