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Trump's FCC Chair Says that CBS News Will Have to Employ a 'BIAS MONITOR' to Police Their Reporting [1]
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Date: 2025-07-26
Just in case there still people who are not convinced that Donald Trump is plotting to replace America's democracy with a totalitarian dictatorship, he has dispatched his chairman of the FCC (Fascist Communications Commission) to Newsmax to announce his latest anti-free-press initiative.
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FCC chair, Brendan Carr, has been making the media rounds this week to rollout the Trump agenda to clampdown on any journalistic enterprise that thinks it has the freedom to criticize Dear Leader Trump or his MAGA movement. Last week Carr bragged to Fox News that Trump had defunded PBS and NPR. And he told them that Trump was responsible for the cancelation of "Late Night with Stephen Colbert" because Trump is "not gonna play by the rules of politicians in the past and let these legacy outfits dictate the narrative and the terms of the debate." Of course not. Dictating the narrative is a privilege reserved for Trump and his confederates.
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Not satisfied with those assaults on the free press, Carr also visited with Newsmax to announce a unique provision that was snuck into the FCC's approval of the merger between Paramount (the owner of CBS) and Skydance Media. Carr sat for a friendly chat with Newsmax host Greg Kelly that included the following exchange...
Kelly: We heard a little about what they're gonna have to do on 60 Minutes. Is there anything beyond that you can tell us about what they're gonna do differently, fact-based? You know, that's kind of a cultural shock to them.
Carr: Yeah, it might be news to some folks over there. One of the things they’re going to have to do is put an ombudsman in place for two years. So basically a "bias monitor" that will report directly to the president. So that’s something that’s significant that we’re going to see happening as well to broadcasters."
x Trump's FCC Chair says he will put a "bias monitor" in place who will "report directly" to Trump as part of the deal for Sky Dance to acquire CBS — FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T16:08:59.336Z
HOLY CRAP! This is unprecedented. Carr is revealing that the government is exerting its full force to demand that a news network hire a censorship czar to police the content of CBS's reporting, as well as that of other broadcasters. But not to worry, we can rest assured that he will execute his role as Bias Judge with the utmost neutrality, right? And he will also mandate bias monitors for Newsmax and Fox News, right? RIGHT?
[UPDATE: This story was corrected to note that the “bias monitor” would not be reporting to the president of the United States as originally stated. Carr’s remarks on Newsmax were not clear, but Talking Points Memo reviewed the text of the agreement which they report refers to the president of Paramount]
This brazenly autocratic conduct is not new for the Trump regime, or for Carr specifically. He recently told CNBC that "the media industry across this country needs a course correction." And he believes that it is the proper role of government to impose that correction and determine the course. It's a political philosophy that he and Trump acquired from their heroes, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
x CNBC: Colbert is a comedian. You keep talking about journalism and fairness in news, but we all remember Carson and Jay Leno giving Reagan the business. Where does that fit in? FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: Frankly, the media industry across this country needs a course correction — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-25T15:05:29.181Z
The goal of these initiatives is to reshape the media into a Trump-fluffing platform of pure propaganda. If they get their way, all voices of dissent will be muzzled, and those who engage in it will be sent to gulags in El Salvador, or worse. Some in the media have already capitulated to Trump. Which makes it all the more imperative that every American speaks out and supports independent media and free speech. If we don't do it now, we may not be able to do it at all.
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