An all out admission that this administration is at war with and thinks that using the power of the government through the FCC and official government websites to silence anything negative about them is somehow not against the costutution. History has seen this movie before.............
FCC’s Brendan Carr: Trump is ‘winning’ against ‘fake news media’
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Friday said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that President Trump is “winning” his feud against the “fake news media.”
Carr told the audience that other politicians “gave way to the legacy national media,” unlike Trump, who the FCC chief said “smashed the façade.”
“President Trump took on the fake news media and President Trump is winning,” he continued. “Look at the results so far. PBS defunded. NPR defunded. Joy Reid, gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone. [Stephen] Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN is going to have new ownership as well.”
Paramount Skydance is helmed by David Ellison, the son of Trump ally and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. The company purchased CBS News last year and tapped conservative writer Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief. The parent company also won its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, which oversees CNN, in February.
David Ellison has said the CNN’s editorial strategy will serve a more politically “diverse” audience; similar remarks were made previously about CBS News.
Carr added on Friday that “we’re not at the point yet –– you know, waving the ‘mission accomplished’ flag,” but repeated that the president is “winning.”
In December, Carr suggested that the FCC was not independent from the administration, despite the website previously labeling it as an “independent government agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.” The word “independent” was removed after the agency’s chief testified before lawmakers.
He recently threatened to crack down on broadcasters over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. He wrote earlier this month that broadcasters could have problems renewing their licenses due to their coverage, accusing them of “running hoaxes and news distortions.”
Trump’s war on the news media goes back several years, first amplified during his first campaign for the presidency in 2016. The president has accused much of legacy news media as being “fake news” and has preferred conservative media with reporting favorable toward him and both of his administrations.
Following his return to the White House last year, Trump warned mainstream media outlets that they were “on notice” after ABC and Paramount Global, before it merged with Skydance, settled lawsuits with the administration.
The White House also released a “media bias” tracker on its website in November to accuse news reports of omitting context and claim that they include lies, mischaracterization, bias or malpractice. It features an “offender hall of shame” headlined by The Washington Post, MS Now, CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, Politico and the Wall Street Journal.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5805710-brendan-carr-fcc-donald-trump-media-feud-cpac/
