I joked in another thread that Trump will have to go after media outlets to get them to stop reporting things.

Well, maybe we're getting closer to that.

Quote:This is bonkers. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has opened an investigation into San Francisco’s KCBS station because he didn’t like their immigration reporting last month. I do not see how anyone who claims to care about free speech can be even remotely OK with this.

https://x.com/billybinion/status/1887882...1_&ref_url

https://www.kqed.org/news/12025977/fcc-i...edom-fears

Quote:The Federal Communications Commission is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing right-wing backlash to the radio station.

In an interview on Fox News, Trump-appointed commission chair Brendan Carr said he opened the investigation after KCBS shared the live locations and vehicle descriptions of immigration officials on Jan. 26.

“We have sent a letter of inquiry, a formal investigation into that matter, and they have just a matter of days left to respond to that inquiry and explain how this could possibly be consistent with their public interest obligations,” Carr said.

First Amendment advocates worry the FCC investigation will have a chilling effect on news organizations reporting on the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.

“Law enforcement operations, immigration or otherwise, are matters of public interest,” said David Loy, legal director for the First Amendment Coalition. “People generally have the right to report this on social media and in print and so on. So it’s very troubling because it’s possible the FCC is potentially being weaponized to crack down on reporting that the administration simply just doesn’t like.”

First demanding that CBS hand over the unedited video of Harris's 60 Minutes interview, now [BLEEP] like this.

We're in for a rough few years.


MAGA's think the 2nd Amendment should be first, and the 1st Amendment should not even exist.

Like Trump himself, they know better than the Founding Fathers.

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