President-elect Donald Trump is tapping FCC commissioner Brendan Carr — who has been outspoken about the epidemic of partisan media outlets and their attempts to influence elections — to chair the agency in a move that has mainstream media outlets on edge.
“I am pleased to announce that Commissioner Brendan Carr will be Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Commissioner Carr currently serves as the senior Republican on the FCC. Before that, he was the FCC’s General Counsel,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday night.
The president-elect noted that he first nominated Carr to the position in 2017. “His current term runs through 2029 and, because of his great work, I will now be designating him as permanent Chairman.”
The appointment has sent shockwaves throughout the media landscape, as Carr has previously detailed a number of monumental moves that would roll back the reach of partisan media outlets.
Last month — when CBS News was accused of editing Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview with 60 Minutes — Carr raised the alarm over the severity of the allegations and called for a thorough investigation.
The network has been under intense scrutiny after the network aired two separate broadcasts with different answers from Vice President Harris to the same question. Interviewer Bill Whitaker asked whether Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is “listening” to the Biden-Harris administration.
Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone.
This is what many Americans will now see. pic.twitter.com/H4w7btDv6x
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 8, 2024
“The FCC does not regulate, or really even respond to, allegations of politically unfavorable coverage or legitimate editorial discretion,” Simington wrote in a statement to the Daily Caller. “The recent complaint regarding WCBS-TV raises a fully different set of issues regarding whether or not coverage was intentionally distorted: reporting that something was said in response to a question that literally was not. I don’t know whether that’s true, but it’s a different issue.”
Simington further laid out steps a Trump-appointed commissioner could take in a second term, ideas that Carr wholeheartedly agreed with.
When CBS and its subsidiaries go to renew their broadcasting licenses, a Republican-led FCC could place certain restrictions on a renewal agreement, including a stipulation that the “60 Minutes” transcript would be released, an FCC source told the Daily Caller.
Carr’s appointment spooked CNN’s Brian Stelter, who took issue with the soon-to-be FCC chairman’s criticism of pro-censorship outlets like Newsguard, which seeks to demonetize and de-platform right-leaning media outlets.
“Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft & others have played central roles in the censorship cartel. The Orwellian named NewsGuard along with ‘fact checking’ groups & ad agencies helped enforce one-sided narratives,” Carr wrote in an X post earlier this week. “The censorship cartel must be dismantled.”
This is what Trump’s pick for FCC chair, Brendan Carr, was doing a couple of days ago: https://t.co/vnTYvhC84u
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 18, 2024
How the incoming FCC chair is describing his mission: https://t.co/meh7ksiZNu
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 18, 2024
It is about time to put our country back to where it going…come January the USA will start to rise!! Us, citizens deserve to have the right people steering our country toward freedom from those, on the left…Democrats, who want control and have us do what they want without us giving any thought into it!!
I had a Facebook account until I started to post things of what I believe in for being a Republican! They threw me out, just like a piece of trash…the way they do things….there way!!! Not any more, come January we will be back on the track to put the USA on top again!!
Ohhhhhhh Yeahhhhhhhhhh!
Why is the media afraid that the new FCC chair will dismantle the “censorship cartel?” Unless they are part of that cartel??
Blow up cable TV and reform it… force the cable providers to offer ala carte programming packages. I’ll pay for internet and for maybe a half dozen channels that I want. I REFUSE TO BE FORCED to pay for cnn, msnbc, etc, when I don’t watch them. I don’t want my hard-earned money going towards the obnoxiously high payouts to the scum-sucking pukes and feckless cunts.
News can not be allowed not to tell the whole truth or even ignore the truth. News can not stage events to make people believe the lies. The problem is that mass medias are owned by one political party.News is going to not tell the truth about President Trump. That is why so many believe the Communist Dems because the full truth was withheld from being reported. Like, Trump never praised neo-Nazis at a Charlottesville protest as “very fine people” in a 2017 press conference with combative reporters. Dems love to say this one over and over again. “While Trump did say that there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said they should be ‘condemned totally. Trump campaign has never endorsed the 2025 policy project, which was compiled by the Heritage Foundation, Trump would limit access to abortions, ban birth control pills, and ban abortions ALL are false Trump never said that. Dems making up lies so they would vote for an imbecile. There are a lot more lies the Dem have said. The News NEVER corrected them and told the truth. We have mass medias run by one party only!! This is very wrong. People will never hear the truth. I went digging for the truth in what Trump has said and OMG I really had to dig. Google might be blocking it. A year ago I could find Trump’s full unedited speeches and today they are hard to find. There are YouTube videos, but not the written word. While looking, all of a sudden Google took me to a Biden page. WTF!