Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Robert Corn-Revere
“The president doesn’t like it when late-night TV talk show hosts make fun of him. That undeniable fact is the common denominator for a series of actions that have kept the Federal Communications Commission in the news this past year and why Brendan Carr, its chairman, has been talking lately about the FCC’s ‘equal time’ rule. … There are many reasons why the FCC’s equal time rule is obsolete (and likely unconstitutional in today’s technological environment) and why Carr’s reliance on it to squelch television talk show interviews is wildly inappropriate.” (02/23/26)