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The Hollywood ReporterWith Paramount Deal in the Balance, Teamsters Meet With FCC Chair Over Job Protections <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BusinessNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BusinessNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Teamsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teamsters</a><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-deal-teamsters-fcc-1236180914/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-deal-teamsters-fcc-1236180914/</a>

DeadlineNew York Yankees Boss Randy Levine Thanks Donald Trump, FCC Chief Brendan Carr For Helping YES Network Resolve Carriage Fight With Comcast <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sports</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarriageDispute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarriageDispute</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Comcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comcast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewYorkYankees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYorkYankees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandyLevine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RandyLevine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YESNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YESNetwork</a><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/04/yankees-yes-network-comcast-carriage-dispute-donald-trump-fcc-1236355865/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://deadline.com/2025/04/yankees-yes-network-comcast-carriage-dispute-donald-trump-fcc-1236355865/</a>

DeadlineFCC Chair Opens Investigation Into Walt Disney Co. Over DEI Programs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BobIger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BobIger</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiversityEquityInclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiversityEquityInclusion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/03/fcc-disney-dei-trump-1236353552/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://deadline.com/2025/03/fcc-disney-dei-trump-1236353552/</a>

VarietyFCC Chairman Opens Probe Into Disney and ABC DEI Practices: ‘Iconic’ Company ‘Recently Went All-In on DEI’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Variety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Variety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCC</a><a href="https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/fcc-investigation-disney-abc-dei-practices-1236351381/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/fcc-investigation-disney-abc-dei-practices-1236351381/</a>

Burkhard Maria Zimmermann'Federal Communications Commission chair <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#discrimination</a>,” according to an interview with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bloomberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bloomberg</a>. Carr reportedly brought up <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paramount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paramount</a> ’s merger with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Skydance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Skydance</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Verizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Verizon</a> ’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TMobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TMobile</a> ’s plans to acquire most of US Cellular as potential deals that could be affected.'<a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/634244/fcc-brendan-carr-dei-us-mergers-acquisitions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/news/634244/fcc-brendan-carr-dei-us-mergers-acquisitions</a>

DeadlineParamount-Skydance And Other Pending Mergers Could Be Blocked Over DEI Policies, FCC Chief Brendan Carr Says <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiversityEquityInclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiversityEquityInclusion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mergersandacquisitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mergersandacquisitions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParamountSkydancemerger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ParamountSkydancemerger</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Skydance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Skydance</a><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/03/paramount-skydance-merger-fcc-brendan-carr-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-1236346715/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://deadline.com/2025/03/paramount-skydance-merger-fcc-brendan-carr-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-1236346715/</a>

EuractivTrump’s FCC chair <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> may shape <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> regulatory clash with EU: The FCC chairman has spoken as both friend and foe of EU <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> regulation. <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/trumps-fcc-chair-brendan-carr-may-shape-tech-regulatory-clash-with-eu/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/trumps-fcc-chair-brendan-carr-may-shape-tech-regulatory-clash-with-eu/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it</a>

The Hollywood ReporterTrump’s Media Pitbull Is “Off the Leash” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticsNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticsNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PresidentDonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PresidentDonaldTrump</a><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/brendan-carr-fcc-media-free-press-1236166624/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/brendan-carr-fcc-media-free-press-1236166624/</a>

VarietyFCC Chairman Announces Effort to Counter Threat From China <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Variety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Variety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCC</a><a href="https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/fcc-chairman-china-threat-1236336708/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/fcc-chairman-china-threat-1236336708/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseGizmodo: FCC Chair Asks YouTube TV Why It Hates God. “Brendan Carr has some questions about God. Mainly, why isn’t he getting more air time? Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission sent a letter last week to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan asking if YouTube TV has any policies that discriminate against faith-based programming—an ask prompted […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/13/gizmodo-fcc-chair-asks-youtube-tv-why-it-hates-god/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/13/gizmodo-fcc-chair-asks-youtube-tv-why-it-hates-god/</a>

Dennis A<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTubeTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTubeTV</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> Ridiculous! I've been a YouTube TV customer since beta. There's plenty of religious and specifically Christian programming. This is simply a government official attempting to extort a corporation into giving money to a favored political group. FCC Chair Asks YouTube TV Why It Hates GodBrendan Carr thinks YouTube TV might be discriminating against "faith-based programming." <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fcc-chair-asks-youtube-tv-why-it-hates-god-2000575057" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gizmodo.com/fcc-chair-asks-youtube-tv-why-it-hates-god-2000575057</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesHey, would you believe me if I told you that the President signed an executive order on February 18th that gives Trump, a guy who tried to make election officials declare him the winner of an election he lost (and launched a coup attempt when that didn't work) and has been talking about shutting down media organizations that criticize him, essentially complete control over the previously independent Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission? I mean probably not right, since for-profit media has barely covered the issue even though it has a direct impact on their industry. Unfortunately, it's true:<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/independent-agencies-oversee-elections-and-media-trumps-seizing-their-reins/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/independent-agencies-oversee-elections-and-media-trumps-seizing-their-reins/</a>Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins."The order states that, “The heads of independent regulatory agencies shall establish a position of White House Liaison in their respective agencies,” and goes on to say: “Independent regulatory agency chairmen shall submit agency strategic plans … to the Director of OMB for clearance prior to finalization.” In other words, independent agencies will no longer be independent but will instead be ruled over by political commissars, their every action now scrutinized to make sure they are ideologically sympatico to the aims of the MAGA movement.Two of the agencies subject to this new system are the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — a historically bipartisan, six-member organization that helps to set ground rules for how elections are run and financed — and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, among other things, controls access to the country’s airwaves.Trump has been angling for control of both of these agencies since the start of his administration."Is any of this legal? Who the hell knows; but are you willing to bet a 6-3 fascist-high Supreme Court that has already endorsed the idea that Trump is above the law and the existence of an imperial presidency, are likely to stop him? I'm certainly not. Furthermore, to mount any sort of mass resistance to this type of "classic" fascist power grab ultimately targeting elections and media criticism of the regime, you'd probably have to know it's happening and understand why this executive order might be the single most dangerous thing Trump has signed since he took office again; and clearly for-profit media and a political class doing more collaborating with fascism than resisting it, don't consider informing you about this very relevant right now. Folks, I dunno about you but I'm getting tired of waiting around for Trump to find his Reichstag Fire and finish crafting a multi-executive order version of the German Enabling Act while Very Serious PeopleTM keep pretending we don't know if Trump is going to go full Hitler and mustn't presume he means to do everything he openly says he's doing. We all heard this guy on tape pressuring election officials and even GOP Governors to "find" him thousands of votes and effectively rig the 2020 election for him. We're all watching as his Project 2025 nazi minion Brendan Carr uses his newfound powers as head of the FCC to threaten the broadcast licenses of media orgs that criticize him, try to shut down PBS and NPR, and even investigate media companies that the regime claims "promote diversity" like that's some kind of crime. So when Trump, the imperial president, passes an executive order that gives him complete effective control of the agencies that regulate American elections and what passes for the "free press" in the United States, you'd have to some kind of credulous rube to believe he's doing so for any other purpose besides rigging elections for fascists and eliminating whatever portions of the US media there are that won't carry water for the fascist administration and the odious ideology animating it. There's not a lotta wiggle room here; either you're a complete fucking muppet, or you're willing to quietly bootlick for a fascist President while he rips pages directly from Hitler's playbook to create his very own American Pork Reich. I guess the only question left then, is which of those two possibilities best describes an American political and media class supposedly opposed to Trump's fascist regime, that doesn't want to talk about it before it's too late to stop him? <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCC</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FEC</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elections</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePress</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NaziGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaziGermany</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendanCarr</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NPR</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PBS</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FCC</a> chair investigates <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NPR</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PBS</a>, urges Congress to defund them<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BrendanCarr</a> described as "Trump's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensorshipCzar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CensorshipCzar</a>" as he launches media probes. by Jon Brodkin – Jan 30, 2025 "The FCC's Democratic commissioners, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaGomez" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AnnaGomez</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeoffreyStarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GeoffreyStarks</a>, issued statements denouncing the investigation. 'This appears to be yet another Administration effort to weaponize the power of the FCC. The FCC has no business intimidating and silencing broadcast media,' Gomez said."Starks said that '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicTelevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PublicTelevision</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioStations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RadioStations</a> play a significant role in our media ecosystem. Any attempt to intimidate these local media outlets is a threat to the free flow of information and the marketplace of ideas. The announcement of this investigation gives me serious concern.'" Read more: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/trumps-fcc-chair-investigates-npr-and-pbs-urges-congress-to-defund-them/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/trumps-fcc-chair-investigates-npr-and-pbs-urges-congress-to-defund-them/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingCritics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SilencingCritics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tyranny</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Censorship</a>

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