Senate Democrats Fire Off Letter To FCC Chairman Over “Weaponization” Of Agency To Punish CBS And Other Broadcast Outlets Over News Content
deadline.comA group of Democratic senators say that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has been engaged in a “weaponization” of the agency to “punish, censor or intimidate” members of the press based on “political disagreement over editorial choices.” Among the instances cited in the letter — from Sen.
Ed Markey (D-MA), Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) — is Carr’s decision to investigate CBS News over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris, a response to a complaint from a conservative group.
Last week, CBS News handed over a transcript of the interview, showing that an answer she gave in a Face the Nation promo and another to 60 Minutes were merely two parts of her response to the same question.
But the lawmakers say that Carr’s decision to open up a docket on the case “are nothing more than a fishing expedition, creating a veneer of government legitimacy for a pressure campaign against independent journalism.” Read the senators’ letter to Brendan Carr.
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