Carr says the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an enforcement action into ABC’s the View
The chair of the US’s top media regulator claimed on Wednesday that journalists had been tricked into covering claims by the late-night host Stephen Colbert that he had been blocked by his network from interviewing a Texas Senate candidate.
Brendan Carr, the avowedly pro-Trump chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), made his comments after Colbert accused the Trump administration and CBS of censorship.
CBS has countered Colbert’s claims in a statement, saying it had not blocked him from interviewing James Talarico, a Texas Democrat, but had merely provided legal guidance that such an interview might trigger equal time regulations that would require him to also platform Talarico’s campaign rivals.
Part of the issue is that there’s like 8 people running for that one position at this point, before the primaries.
What was the interview, like 10/20 minutes? Doesn’t seem like a big drama, particularly when half the candidates will likely not want to risk the potential for hard questioning and looking like a moron.
And you think it’s reasonable to devote 40-80 minutes of show time of a national comedy show to interviewing every candidate for a single state race?