Brendan Carr Responds to Kimmel Over New FCC Equal Time Rules: "If You're Fake News, You're Not Going to Qualify"
Source: Hollywood Reporter
During his monthly press conference at the agency, Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr elaborated on the agency’s “equal time” rule change, which could force daytime talk shows like The View and late night shows like The Tonight Show to think carefully before inviting on candidates for political office.
There has been an exemption for daytime talk shows and late night talk shows tracking back decades. In general, talk shows have qualified for the equal opportunities exemption as a bona fide news interview, ever since the FCC granted an exemption to Jay Leno’s Tonight Show in 1996. That is now changing, with the FCC expecting to be much more aggressive in responding to complaints from candidates that are not invited onto shows, be they from a major party, or a more obscure third party.
“Congress was clear that the FCC has a role with respect to bona fide news, because otherwise, I think the statutory history is clear,” Carr said during the press conference, which was streamed on YouTube. “They were worried that TV programmers would broadly take advantage of trying to claim they were bona fide news when they weren’t. But if you’re fake news, you’re not going to qualify for the bona fide news exception.”
Carr said that the change is spurred on by the Leno exemption, with the FCC focusing on broadcast TV programming. However, he was asked whether the same rules would apply to talk radio shows, which tend to skew more conservative.
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Jimmy Kimmel et al is comedy Brendan Shit-for-brains. Unfortunately, you don't see it as such.
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