Source: The Dispatch
by Paul Matzko
“he temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show by ABC after a threat from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has stoked a firestorm of protest on free speech grounds. Yet although a Trump-appointed, conservative Republican is pulling the trigger, it was actually progressives who gave Carr both of the regulatory weapons he is using in an attempt to censor critics of the Trump administration and its allies: the public interest standard and the news distortion doctrine.” (09/25/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/fcc-public-interest-standard-broadcast-speech/