Critics Blast Trump FCC Chief for Threats Over Iran War Coverage

[struth]

Which executive department?

The United States federal one

 

[Independent thinker]

It would make one suspicious of his actual motivations.

What does that have to do with wanting the news to report fairly and without a bias?

 

[Marener]

The United States federal one

That’s not a department. Name the department.

 

[Marener]

What does that have to do with wanting the news to report fairly and without a bias?

It shows he doesn’t care about the truth.

 

[mudwhistle]

‘Several politicians and media figures have criticized Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr for issuing a statement on Saturday in which he attacked the media over its coverage of the Iran War and threatened to pull licenses if they do not "operate in the public interest."

Carr, in a lengthy post on X, accused broadcasters of "running hoaxes and news distortions" and warned they must "correct course before their license renewals come up." "It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news," he wrote. "Time for change!"

Why It Matters

Carr's post follows President Donald Trump's criticism of American news media earlier on Saturday, in which he accused news organizations of publishing "intentionally misleading" headlines about the war.

The president has struggled with messaging about the conflict, which has continued for two weeks and appears to have no clear end in sight, even as the president insists the U.S. has "beaten and completely decimated Iran, both militarily, economically, and in every other way."’

Critics blast Trump FCC Chief for threats over Iran War coverage

Carr's post follows Trump's criticism of U.S. news media, which he accused of publishing "intentionally misleading" headlines.

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Carr’s attack on a free press violates the First Amendment, not that anyone in the Trump regime cares about the Constitution.

Issuing threats against a free press is of course typical of an authoritarian regime.

And there’s nothing ‘misleading’ about the press’ reporting on Trump’s war.

The misinformation is in the form of repetitive coverage which gives the viewer the impression that the war is going badly when we're mopping the floor with Iran.

They've talked about the same 6 soldiers killed on day-one as if they were hundreds of dead soldiers. They keep reporting their deaths until another soldier dies and repeat that one over and over. Not reporting deaths like they did under Democrat presidents removes them from the minds of Americans.
This is how they mislead the public.
Dead soldiers don't matter to the left. (The more the better because they hate the military) But that doesn't stop them from using their dead bodies to score political-points with negative coverage.

This is how the left lies to us and shapes the message.