It’s just amazing how all those random people have exactly the same observation about Donald Trump’s mighty golf swing…
So that’s nice.
Meanwhile, the free speech warriors remain silent about these comments by FCC Chair Brendan Carr:
“What is important to keep in mind is when President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits and the New York and Hollywood elites that are behind it, and he smashed the facade that they are gatekeepers that control what Americans can think and what Americans can say,” Carr responded.
“Once you do that, you have exposed a business model of a lot of these outfits as being nothing more than a partisan circus. So I think there are a lot of consequences that are flowing from President Trump deciding, I won’t play by the rules of politicians in the past and let these legacy outfits dictate the narrative and terms of the debate,” he continued. “He is succeeding.”
Carr then went on to suggest that even if Trump hadn’t played a direct role in the cancellation of Colbert’s show, the president’s ongoing war with the legacy media was the key factor in the decision.
“Look at what is happening. NPR has been defunded, PBS has been defunded, Colbert is getting canceled,” the chairman boasted. “You’ve got anchors and news media personalities losing jobs downstream of President Trump’s decision to stand up. He stood up for the American people. The American people don’t trust the legacy gatekeepers anymore.”
Hemmer, meanwhile, pointed out that he had asked Carr “a very direct question,” but “did not hear a yes or a no in your answer.” Instead, as the Fox anchor noted, he “heard a maybe.”
Carr’s non-committal response comes two days after Skydance’s general counsel sent him a pair of letters confirming that New Paramount will eliminate all diversity, equity and inclusivity policies and hire an ombudsman to review “complaints of bias” at CBS News once the merger is complete.
That whole freedom of the press thing is so very old-fashioned. It’s just going to be propaganda all the way down from now on.