STELTER: “Yeah, I‘ve been in touch with carr today, and I think he‘s playing a clever game. Or at least he thinks he‘s clever about this. He‘s able to say, look, I‘m just enforcing a rule that‘s on the books. This is a rule that was passed by Congress nearly 100 years ago, at the dawn of the broadcast age, when black and white TV was just being invented. And that is true. It‘s been on the books for almost 100 years. Carr‘s predecessors basically ignored the rule didn‘t really worry about it. He‘s saying they were wrong. I‘m right. I‘m taking it seriously. I‘m protecting the unique power of broadcast TV, and it just so happens that by doing that, he‘s punishing left-wing shows that are famed for having Trump critics on the air. That is the context for this. And, you know carr, today is right when he says, I didn‘t do anything. I‘m just sitting in my office watching this happen. That‘s true. He didn‘t have to do anything because CBS acted in advance. Timothy Snyder, the author of on tyranny calls this obeying in advance CBS took its action in order to avoid regulatory scrutiny. They don‘t”
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Brian Stelter on FCC Enforcement: Brendan Carr Punishing Left-Wing Shows ‘By Doing That’‘CBS took its action in order to avoid regulatory scrutiny’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:STELTER: “Yeah, I‘ve been in touch with carr today, and I think he‘s playing a clever game. Or at least he thinks he‘s clever about this. He‘s able to say, look, I‘m just enforcing a rule that‘s on the books. This is a rule that was passed by Congress nearly 100 years ago, at the dawn of the broadcast age, when black and white TV was just being invented. And that is true. It‘s been on the books for almost 100 years. Carr‘s predecessors basically ignored the rule didn‘t really worry about it. He‘s saying they were wrong. I‘m right. I‘m taking it seriously. I‘m protecting the unique power of broadcast TV, and it just so happens that by doing that, he‘s punishing left-wing shows that are famed for having Trump critics on the air. That is the context for this. And, you know carr, today is right when he says, I didn‘t do anything. I‘m just sitting in my office watching this happen. That‘s true. He didn‘t have to do anything because CBS acted in advance. Timothy Snyder, the author of on tyranny calls this obeying in advance CBS took its action in order to avoid regulatory scrutiny. They don‘t”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview
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