Broadcast television, he said, operates under a license and public interest standard, unlike cable or streaming platforms. The FCC can review “news distortion complaints” if formally filed, but otherwise disputes are resolved between local licensees and national programmers. “I haven’t seen this much interest in the work of the FCC since the great net neutrality repeal of 2017,” Carr said. Gomez, however, issued a sharply worded statement after ABC announced that Kimmel’s suspension would end. “They went from being court jesters that made fun of everybody…to court clerics, where they were enforcing a very narrow sort of partisan view,” Carr said.