It’s the latest attempt by the FCC chair to apply pressure on media companies that irritate Trump with critical coverage of his administration. Advertisement“Once again, this FCC pretends it has the power to control news coverage,” FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez said Monday in a statement. Gavin Newsom weighed in as well, posting, “If Trump doesn’t like your coverage of the war, his FCC will pull your broadcast license. At the height of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, Richard Nixon’s allies attempted to challenge the TV licenses for three stations owned at the time by the Washington Post. As Gomez noted, Carr’s FCC only has regulatory control over the TV stations that carry the network signals.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 17, 2026 04:19 UTC