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No More Pretense: Carr's FCC Threatens News Radio Station For Reporting The News Too Specifically
No More Pretense: Carr’s FCC Threatens News Radio Station For Reporting The News Too Specifically
Free Speech
from the free-speech-warriors-my-ass dept
Thu, Feb 6th 2025 03:33pm - Timothy Geigner
Sycophants do sycophantic things, that much is known. But the level to which newly-minted FCC chairman Brendan Carr has voluntarily debased himself purely to achieve his current station is extraordinary. We knew during the campaign season that Carr was eager to be America’s chief censor of any content the Dear Leader disliked. That the same Dear Leader deigned to refer to Carr as a “free speech warrior” could normally be described as double-speak, except that such a description would imply that Donald Trump has read 1984 at some point and I have a very hard time believing that to be true, save perhaps as an instruction manual. But the actions Carr has taken since his vulgar elevation to chairman are both unsurprising and so obviously counter to the concept of freedom of speech and serving the public as to be laughable.
But should you need to see the hypocrisy starkly in action, not to mention how the far-right propaganda machine plans to serve the administration, you need only read about how Carr’s FCC is threatening one of the oldest radio stations in the country for reporting the news too specifically.
Let’s start with the headline from Fox News.
It’s hard to know where to begin with this bullshit. KCBS in San Francisco has been around forever in the radio world. The first time the station went on the air officially was in 1921. It’s one of the oldest radio stations in the country and, possibly, the world. And, yes, it was bought by Audacy a few years ago and, yes, Audacy is partially owned by the Soros Fund Management. Somehow all of that turned into KCBS being a “Soros-backed” station, I’m sure not at all because of Soros’ longstanding service as the far right’s Jewish boogeyman.
Now, the whole live locations thing of ICE raids and agents? Yeah, that absolutely happened. It’s called, you know, news.
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Free Speech
from the free-speech-warriors-my-ass dept
Thu, Feb 6th 2025 03:33pm - Timothy Geigner
Sycophants do sycophantic things, that much is known. But the level to which newly-minted FCC chairman Brendan Carr has voluntarily debased himself purely to achieve his current station is extraordinary. We knew during the campaign season that Carr was eager to be America’s chief censor of any content the Dear Leader disliked. That the same Dear Leader deigned to refer to Carr as a “free speech warrior” could normally be described as double-speak, except that such a description would imply that Donald Trump has read 1984 at some point and I have a very hard time believing that to be true, save perhaps as an instruction manual. But the actions Carr has taken since his vulgar elevation to chairman are both unsurprising and so obviously counter to the concept of freedom of speech and serving the public as to be laughable.
But should you need to see the hypocrisy starkly in action, not to mention how the far-right propaganda machine plans to serve the administration, you need only read about how Carr’s FCC is threatening one of the oldest radio stations in the country for reporting the news too specifically.
Let’s start with the headline from Fox News.
FCC launches probe into Soros-backed radio station that revealed live locations of undercover ICE agents
It’s hard to know where to begin with this bullshit. KCBS in San Francisco has been around forever in the radio world. The first time the station went on the air officially was in 1921. It’s one of the oldest radio stations in the country and, possibly, the world. And, yes, it was bought by Audacy a few years ago and, yes, Audacy is partially owned by the Soros Fund Management. Somehow all of that turned into KCBS being a “Soros-backed” station, I’m sure not at all because of Soros’ longstanding service as the far right’s Jewish boogeyman.
Now, the whole live locations thing of ICE raids and agents? Yeah, that absolutely happened. It’s called, you know, news.
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