Who the hell does this guy think he is?
“One of the things that the new buyers of CBS have committed to is unbiased fact-based reporting. They’re going to report on a wide variety of political and ideological perspectives. They’re committing to getting rid of invidious forms of DEI discrimination, reinvest in local journalism. So I think it’s a great win for the American people.
“It’s great to have, you know, comedians out there. It’s great to have satire. It’s great to go after people that are in power. But one of the stories here is that, you know, Colbert and others went from being court jesters making fun of everybody to being court clerics. And they stopped going for joke lines and laugh lines and they started going for applause lines.
“And again, I think it’s a consequence that comes from Trump because he said that these elites in Hollywood and New York, they don’t get to decide anymore what works in this country from a media perspective. One of the things that President Trump did was he ran directly at the legacy national media, and he smashed the facade that they get to decide what we think and what we get to say.” – FCC chair and Project 2025 author Brendan Carr, today on Fox News.
Again, who the hell does he think he is? Chief Entertainment Commissar?
I wonder if Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss might have any thoughts on this? Elon? All the right wing free speech warriors are strangely silent.