Update
Article in Washington Post by Anne Branigin, 1/31/25
Headline: “Trump’s FCC chief orders investigation into NPR and PBS sponsorships”
Subhead: “FCC’s Brendan Carr also suggests an investigation could be relevant to conservative congressional efforts to defund the public broadcasters.”
“President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials,” and suggested that the public broadcasters could be at risk of losing their federal funding.
““I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Brendan Carr wrote to the heads of both organizations Wednesday. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/01/31/trump-fcc-npr-pbs-investigation/
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Article in Freepress by Timothy Karr, 1/20/25
Headline: “Trump’s Censorship Czar Orders NPR and PBS Investigation”
“On Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS. In a letter to the chief executives of both publicly funded networks, Carr used the investigation as a pretext to suggest that Congress end federal funding for NPR and PBS.
“To the extent that these taxpayer dollars are being used to support a for profit endeavor or an entity that is airing commercial advertisements, then that would further undermine any case for continuing to fund NPR and PBS with taxpayer dollars,” Carr wrote.”
https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/fcc-chairman-carr-npr-pbs-investigation
