Brendan Carr
Anti-Free Speech AEI Panel Goes All-In to Tar FCC Commissioner
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank attacked free speech, FCC Chair Brendan Carr and the Trump administration at a panel largely indistinguishable from the ideological diversity you’d see on an MSNBC segment.
Free Speech Under Attack from the Right? Yes, … and No.
In recent years, the left has shifted the Overton window away from America's founding ideals by manipulating the media and engaging in censorship. Recent events surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk have sparked debates about the limits of free speech. Amid censorship concerns, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr highlighted the responsibility of broadcasters to serve the public interest, challenging…
Kimmel Doesn't Address Conspiracy Theories That Led To Suspension
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air on Tuesday after his suspension resulting from a previous episode where he stated conservatives were “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” As Kimmel addressed the matter, he omitted the prevalence of conspiracy theories on the left that led to conservative outrage at his comments.
Late Night Shows, Tapper Applaud ABC Bringing Kimmel Back
Three of the four late night comedy shows used their Monday episodes to celebrate ABC and Disney folding to liberal demands to bring back Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, although nobody seemed to want to discuss his actual comments about MAGA “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”
PBS: After Kirk's Murder, Trump Using Govt. to 'Crack Down on Dissent'
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic discussing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination: "President Trump puts television networks on notice and stokes fears that he`s using the government to…
Networks Still Mourn Kimmel, ABC/NBC Skip Reports of Actual Backlash
ABC, CBS, and NBC were still enraged on Friday morning and evening over unfunny late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension from ABC over his vile remarks Monday spreading a conspiracy theory about the Charlie Kirk assassination. And once again, they fiddled with a conspiracy theory of their own that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), local TV conglomerates, and the Trump…
CNN Guest Invokes Kimmel Suspension Alongside Civil War, WWI Censors
Longtime University of Virginia professor and increasingly far-left kook Larry Sabato surfaced on Thursday afternoon’s CNN News Central and compared this supposedly dark time in America given the timeout ABC placed Jimmy Kimmel in and President Trump’s ripping of the media alongside the Civil War, the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 and censorship during both world wars.
'That's Just Jimmy Kimmel': Colbert Doesn't Understand Anger at Kimmel
All of the late night comedians addressed ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday shows, but CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s reaction on The Late Show was especially bad. Not only did Colbert not see any problem in what Kimmel said, but he also teamed up with CNN host Jake Tapper and The New Yorker editor David Remnick to warn about the decay of press freedom in the Trump era.
David Bozell on O’Connor: ‘Kimmel’s Comment Was Beyond the Pale’
Thursday morning on WMAL’s O’Connor and Company, MRC NewsBusters took center stage in a lively chat about Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension from ABC. The conversation, featuring MRC President David Bozell, kicked off with a quip about two of the more grueling jobs at MRC, handled by Alex Christy, who covers the late-night “comedy” shows, and Nick Fondacaro, who monitors…
CNN’s Tapper, Stelter Defend, Mourn Jimmy Kimmel After ABC Suspension
CNN’s The Lead happened to be on-air as word came that ABC had suspended liberal late-night host Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely following conspiratorial and vile remarks Monday mocking President Trump and conservatives for mourning last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk. Before CNN went nearly wall-to-wall with coverage as though there had been a mass shooting, host Jake Tapper and…
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Rejects Politico Push on Big Tech Censorship
A legacy media host teed up Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to join the chorus of calls for censorship following the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, but Carr didn’t take the bait.
Pricks: Darcy Hails ‘Freedom of the Press Foundation’ Attacking Carr
Writing Monday night for his site Status, liberal media authoritarian Oliver Darcy — who has called for conservative media to be abolished from cable providers — celebrated a letter from the Freedom of the Press Foundation demanding Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr be disbarred and investigated by the D.C. Court of Appeals for, well, existing and alleging he hates…
MSNBC’s Ari Melber Accuses FCC of Killing Free Speech Through CBS Deal
MSNBC’s Ari Melber, on his show The Beat Monday, hosted FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to speak out against the recent Paramount-Skydance merger. Featuring the obviously inflammatory headline “TRUMP VS. 1ST AMENDMENT,” it was clear which way Melber and his guest leaned. The two discussed how the FCC’s typical role in the merger was really an attack against our Constitution.
FCC Approves Skydance Purchase of CBS News’s Parent Company
Late Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had “approved Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global and its subsidiaries, including the ultimate parent company of the CBS network of owned and operated broadcast television stations, by granting a series of applications that transfer FCC licenses and authorizations.”
