FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel | Trump administration
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) harsh -speaking, Trump pro -President Brendan Carr, on Tuesday, the democrats and the media about Jimmy Kimmel’in critical comments about his speech late at night claimed that “wrong represented”.
Carr, Nexstar and Sinclair, such as television conglomers, chose to withdraw the show for “work ,, Carr, is not because of nothing he said.
At a press conference following the FCC’s monthly meeting, “Jimmy Kimmel did not claim or propose that someone would lose his license,” he said.
ABC announced on September 17 After Carr appeared in a conservative podcast, and the network affiliated organizations, he would come to the forefront to stop publishing the show on Kimmel’s comments upon the death of the extreme right Pundit Charlie Kirk!
Uz We can do this in an easy or difficult way, Car Carr said, explaining that the publishers wanted kimmel to “move”.
Nexstar and Sinclair, the two major carriers of ABC programming, are pushing ABC’s hand by plans to shoot Kimmel’s show quickly.
Ultimately, ABC decided to bring back Kimmel the following week and both Nexstar and Sinclair followed the case. The decision of the network of Disney’s flow service Disney+’s reported a wave of cancellation reportedly.
Carr’s comments received criticism from all over the corridor. Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz said Carr’s words were “as dangerous as Hell”.
At a press conference held on Tuesday, when asked whether he regretted the statement he used to talk about Kimmel, Carr claimed the “full words I said the exact context of the interview”.
“For many democrats, this is really about deterioration and projection,” he added. Later, he accused the Senate democrats of hypocrisy, Refers to calls in 2018 FCC’s Sinclair’s “Compliance with the Compliance of Current Publication Licenses” is a controversial “compulsory” video in which its stations have to publish.
“The same democrats who say I said something I didn’t do are the same as those who are interested in the same behaviors they claim to have done,” he said.
Kimmel said that the entire episode was actually a win for local publishers and that there was a necessary control on the control of New York and Hollywood publishers.
“What we saw in the last two weeks was probably for the first time in 20 or 30 years, local TV stations – real licensed assets connected to certain communities – to push back and carry out certain national programs,” he said. “They felt that they could stand up for themselves. I think this is a good thing. And hopefully we can see more potentially progress.
Guardian was asked by Nexstar and Sinclair that they chose to bring back the show of Kimmel, Carr said that the foresight did not expect a “all kinds of real sustainable time” due to the economic pressures faced by the companies. “These were ultimately to make decisions,” he said.
During the meeting, only Democrat Anna M Gomez on the commission said Carr’s comments while sitting a few meters away. “This fcc threatened to go after him [ABC]Late at night, he seized the conversation as a excuse to punish the conversation that he does not like the comments of the comedian. ”
While Gomez criticized Carr’s leadership, he largely avoided attacking him. and said That he has a good business relationship with him.
While the FCC was collected monthly, the meeting on Tuesday received importance and excitement. Apart from the FCC building, a mobile Billboard truck organized by the committee to protect journalists and reporters unlimitedly carried the message “The government cannot control media content”.
Inside, the meeting room was unusual. Our revolution wore a few protesters organized by the progressive political action organization and wore T -shirts that said “Federal Censorship Commission”. During the meeting, several stood up and shouted: “Censorship Tsar Ateş Carr” and rapidly removed. A sign in his hard speech with Carr’s television networks said to the FCC commissioner: “Brendan, you can do this easy way (you left) or a hard way (you were fired).”
When Guardian was told that the agenda of the “long” (with the words of Carr) for the monthly FCC meeting contained seven crippled action items, a protester disappointed that they had not had breakfast before they arrived early. He left before the meeting ended.
