US EditionFCC Removes ‘Independent’ Label From Website After Chairman’s Clash With Democrats During Senate Hearing
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said the agency is not formally independent due to presidential removal power, prompting removal of 'independent' from the FCC mission statement during Senate testimony.
- The FCC removed the word 'independent' from its website description after Chairman Brendan Carr clashed with Democrats during a Senate hearing.
- Commissioner Anna Gomez accused Carr of trying to 'intimidate government critics' and Sen. Ed Markey urged Carr to resign.
- Sen. Ted Cruz compared Carr to a 'mob boss' over the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel but said the government shouldn't 'arbitrate truth or opinion.'
- Critics say the outcome could reshape media oversight as the Supreme Court of the United States appears poised to grant President Donald Trump greater control over independent agencies, reflecting a shrinking sense of agency independence.
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FCC Abandons Claim to Being Independent
Chair Brendan Carr said in congressional testimony Wednesday that the Federal Communications Commission is "not formally an independent agency"—a characterization that was news to lawmakers. Soon afterward, the phrase "an independent U.S. government agency" became "a U.S. government agency" in the FCC's mission statement on its website...
Description of FCC as 'Independent' Scrubbed From Agency Website After Chair Says It Isn't
One critic called the removal—which came immediately after FCC Chair Brendan Carr ignored nearly a century of historical precedent by claiming the agency is not independent—"a chilling authoritarian touch.”
FCC Chairman Seems to Say That in Threatening ABC Affiliates Over Jimmy Kimmel, He Was Doing His Job to Uphold the ‘Public Interest’
FCC Chair Brendan Carr, asked at a Senate hearing about threats to broadcasters over Jimmy Kimmel comments, said he was simply holding them to a required 'public interest standard.'
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