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Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
The White House’s personal censor.
“Carr is meddling into areas such as private contractual relationships between broadcast networks and affiliates for which the FCC has no jurisdiction,” says Andrew Jay Schwartzman, an expert on media law and senior counselor for the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Even if the targeted companies aren’t actually guilty of anything, the accusations — repeated across Trump-friendly media sources, including Breitbart, The Daily Wire, OAN, Newsmax, Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and countless others — cement the idea in the public’s head that they might be. “For starters, we need to fund our public media in line with global norms and create structural alternatives — truly democratic and independent news outlets — to replace failing commercial models that are so easily captured and cowed by oligarchs.”
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