Source: New York Post
The Trump administration aims to “rebalance” the media by encouraging television broadcasters to “stand up” for their communities and air more patriotic programming, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One. ” Carr used last year’s uproar over late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s inflammatory comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination as an example of how such a rebalancing could play out and why it needs to happen. “They’ve amassed a tremendous amount of power,” Carr said of the legacy television network broadcasters, “and they’ve effectively turned those local TV stations into mouthpieces for the foie gras, oftentimes, that they’re producing in New York and Hollywood.
