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power 2026-05-09
The FCC vs. The View, and the Broadcast License as a Weapon
The Trump FCC is using a 1934 equal-time rule to investigate a talk show, threatening licenses and rewriting 20-year-old precedents. ABC is fighting back. The stakes are whether the government can police broadcast content through regulatory intimidation.
power 2026-04-29
The FCC Opens a License Review Over a Late-Night Joke
The White House wants Jimmy Kimmel fired. The FCC is helping. Neither will succeed, and that may be the point.
power 2026-04-28
The Regulator as Weapon
The FCC is threatening to challenge ABC's broadcast licenses because a comedian made a joke the president disliked. The licensing process has never been used this way. That is the point.