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FCC Chief Brendan Carr Says Trump ‘Has Been Right’ on Media Bias Claims Amid CBS Probe; Anna Gomez Decries ‘Chilling Effect’ and ‘Weaponization’ of Agency
FCC commissioner Anna Gomez slams chairman Brendan Carr for '60 Minutes' probe, calling it an 'unprecedented weaponization' of the agency's authority.
Longtime FCC watchers said the closest analogy to the plainly political motivation of the complaint regarding “60 Minutes” goes back to the early 1970s after the Washington Post published excerpts of the Pentagon Papers that were highly damning of actions taken in Veitnam by the Defense Department and several White House regimes. But given the lack of credible evidence of wrongdoing by CBS News — particularly after the Feb. 5 release of the unedited videos and transcripts of Harris interviews — the case has higher stakes than even Disney’s decision last month to reach a $15 million settlement with Trump in a defamation lawsuit. After Carr reinstated the CBS complaint, the chairman opened up a comment period for the general public to offer their opinions on the unedited “60 Minutes” Harris interview and whether the final broadcast amounted to “news distortion.” That has the effect of extending through at least March 24 the process of the FCC’s review of the sale transaction.
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