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Commissioner Warns Disney’s Josh D’Amaro That FCC Has Been Weaponized Against ABC: “The Process Is The Punishment”

Deadline·Ted Johnson·21 days ago
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Anna Gomez , the sole Democrat on the FCC , warned Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro that the agency has been engaged in a “coordinated campaign of censorship and control” against ABC , citing a series of investigations against the network. In a letter to D’Amaro on Monday, Gomez accused the agency, led by Trump-appointed Chairman Brendan Carr , of a “weaponization” of its “authority as a federal regulator” that is “aimed at pressuring a free and independent press and all media into submission.” “You are not the first target of this campaign, and you will not be the last,” Gomez wrote. Her letter comes several days after Disney accused the FCC under Carr of chilling speech and violating the First Amendment, in response to an agency crackdown on the Equal Time Rule. That has included an investigation of a network-owned station after it aired an appearance by James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, on The View .…

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