Trump FCC Chair Confirms He's Started 'Enforcement Proceedings' Against The View
Source: MEDIAite
Feb 18th, 2026, 10:00 pm
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr confirmed that his agency had opened an investigation into ABCs The View, telling Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that the days that these legacy media broadcasters get to decide what we can say, what we can think, who we can vote for are over.
Carr joined The Ingraham Angle to discuss the recent events surrounding Stephen Colbert and his network, CBS. According to Colbert, CBS lawyers barred The Late Show from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D), a candidate running in the Democratic primary for Senate.
Colbert said that CBS lawyers were concerned over new Federal Communications Commission guidance about the equal time rule regarding political candidates, though the network claimed the show was only presented with legal guidance and was not prevented from airing the interview.
After discussing the situation at The Late Show, Carr confirmed reports that his agency was actively investigating another show due to the same equal time guideline.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-fcc-chair-confirms-hes-started-enforcement-proceedings-against-the-view/
wolfie001
(7,458 posts)There can be only one source of information in this Kleptocracy overseen by scummy billionaires.
UpInArms
(54,582 posts)nm
cbabe
(6,487 posts)ruet
(10,211 posts)Then we have Sinclair.
Ocelot II
(129,944 posts)Bayard
(29,137 posts)Lovie777
(22,426 posts)this will backfire as well.
pfitz59
(12,551 posts)on Faux. Is irony lost on these fools?
Icanthinkformyself
(372 posts)and many others will be in prison at some point down the road. The Fairness Doctrine worked. But, it also revealed the a**holiness of conservatives and Republicans. They didn't like being exposed. So, rather than change their behavior they changed the rules. Typical of them. Can't win with logic and reason so, cheat!!!
TexasBushwhacker
(21,140 posts)and they will make damn fools of themselves?
angrychair
(12,001 posts)When does he apply that same argument to the TV station he is on now?
onenote
(46,089 posts)angrychair
(12,001 posts)It's about broadcast TV regulation. That said, if it matters so much to him then he should be advocating for it in every case, no matter the broadcaster or cable network. It's selective outrage.
turbinetree
(27,321 posts)thingy....................do you think that Ingram person would give free equal access ............
November cannot get here fast enough...........
samsingh
(18,360 posts)sakabatou
(46,013 posts)cstanleytech
(28,344 posts)SunSeeker
(58,007 posts)ificandream
(11,801 posts)From what I've been reading, unless they do, there's not much the FCC can do. But someone in this thread made the suggestion to invite the right-wing idiots on and let them sink.
Like Bill O'Reilly did on Letterman's show.