How FCC chair Brendan Carr is leading Trump’s charge against the media

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Since taking the helm of the Federal Communications Commission in January, Chairman Brendan Carr has launched investigations of nearly every major broadcast network. On Air Force One Thursday, Trump said that the broadcast networks were “97% against me.”“They give me only bad press,” Trump said . And Carr has launched formal investigations of all of the nation’s major broadcast networks, including NPR. Carr has cheered on Trump’s private lawsuits against the media over their news coverage, which most scholars and media lawyers say falls well within the protections of the First Amendment. He vocally supported the elimination of federal funding for public media – something in which the FCC has no formal role.