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Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Thursday defended his claim that the FCC is not an independent agency, asserting that Congress never gave FCC commissioners protection from being removed by the president at will.
The Federal Communications Commission chairman faced questioning over the agency’s role in pressuring media companies and its independence from the president.
Texas, grilled Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday over his push for broadcasters to take ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
Chair Brendan Carr suggested on Wednesday that the agency is not independent from President Trump’s administration after being pressed by senators on
Committee member Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, asked about Carr’s efforts to stem a new form of payola, what she called “show-ola” in which broadcast stations allegedly pressure artists to play their station events in exchange for airplay.