An FCC Commissioner Tells Disney the Agency Is on a Campaign to Censor It
In letter to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, Commissioner Anna Gomez criticizes agency for trying to curtail press freedom
ABC has been a victim of a “sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control” by the Trump administration, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez told Josh D’Amaro, chief executive of Disney, the network’s parent company.
The FCC under Republican Chairman Brendan Carr has been weaponized to pressure “a free and independent press and all media into submission,” Gomez wrote in a letter sent to D’Amaro on Monday and viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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