Brendan Carr
How the FCC became the speech police
In 1964, journalist Fred J. Cook published Barry Goldwater: Extremist of the Right, a 186-page attack on the Republican candidate in that year's presidential election. As economist Thomas W. Hazlett notes in his history …
A reporter’s unwelcome questions provoke yet another Trump threat to yank broadcast licenses
"I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it's so wrong," President Donald Trump told Mary Bruce, the network's chief White House correspondent, on Tuesday. That…
Trump campaigned on free speech. That isn’t how he’s governed.
The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate. I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said,…
FCC threats against Jimmy Kimmel echo a century of speech control
Days after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel joked on his show that the "MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,…
Trump’s vision of broadcast regulation is a threat to conservatives
"When 97 percent of the stories are bad," President Donald Trump declared on Friday, "it's no longer free speech." When TV networks "take a great story" and "make it bad," he…
Brendan Carr says networks must serve ‘public interest.’ What does that mean?
On his ABC late-night show last Monday, Jimmy Kimmel criticized President Donald Trump and his followers for their actions since Charlie Kirk's murder. Within days, Kimmel's show was suspended, after Federal…
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