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Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Sends Letter To Disney’s Bob Iger Referencing ABC’s Donald Trump Settlement And Low Media Trust
Carr has previously embraced some of Donald Trump's attacks on the media.
But the agency is limited by the First Amendment when it comes to monitoring or sanctioning stations over news content, even though Trump has suggested that ABC and other networks should lose their licenses over broadcasts he doesn’t like. Carr, though, then pointed to the higher levels of trust for local media outlets, while suggesting that ABC was taking a heavy handed approach in negotiations with its affiliates. There has been widespread speculation that Carr would seek to relax media ownership rules, as previous GOP FCC chairs have done, but he has been outspoken about the public interest obligations of broadcasters.
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