Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 7/28/25
Headline: “Chasing the Runaway Carr”
Subhead: “The Freedom of the Press Foundation is turing the tables on Brendan Carr, filing a complaint to investigate and poteitially disbar the FCC chairman over his moves to punisdh Donalt Trunp’s media critics.”
“For months, Seth Stern had weighed whether to take the extraordinary step of filing a disciplinary complaint against the country’s top communications regulator. As director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Stern had watched with alarm as Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr repeatedly blurred the line between law and politics—reviving baseless investigations into major news networks, threatening companies over their diversity initiatives, and slow-walking approval of Paramount Global’s merger with Skydance Media while Donald Trump pursued an absurd “60 Minutes” lawsuit against the company.