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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The nation's chief broadcast regulator is, once more, at the center of President Trump's culture war after the president launched a social media barrage Sunday night against ABC and NBC.

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... While the Federal Communications Commission has historically operated with a degree of independence from U.S. presidents, its new chairman, Brendan Carr, has muscularly followed Trump's lead.

Carr has launched formal reviews of nearly all the major broadcast networks " ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS. He has also initiated investigations into the diversity, equity and inclusion actions of the corporate parents of ABC and NBC -- the Walt Disney Co. and Comcast, respectively.

One network has so far escaped his scrutiny: Fox, which is owned by Trump political ally Rupert Murdoch.

Carr has also publicly supported lawsuits Trump filed as a private citizen against ABC and CBS, which yielded twin $16 million settlements from the networks' parent companies. (Trump is suing Murdoch's Wall Street Journal for reporting that he sent a sexually suggestive birthday greeting to the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.)

In a trio of social media posts late Sunday, the president attacked the media and accused ABC and NBC of being "two of the worst and most biased networks in history." He said, without citing any evidence, that 97% of the stories they had aired about him were "BAD STORIES" and suggested they were an arm of the Democratic Party. ...




#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:36 AM | Reply

@#1 ... the president attacked the media and accused ABC and NBC of being "two of the worst and most biased networks in history. ...

So, Pres Trump does not appear to like the truth being reported, so he wants to shut down the stations?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:37 AM | Reply

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