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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's FCC chair blasts MSNBC for 'news distortion' and refusal to call deported man a 'violent' MS-13 member
FCC chairman Brendan Carr raged at Comcast Wednesday evening and asserted it was guilty of news distortion because its cable news channel MSNBC didnt carry a White House press briefing that featured the administration continuing to defend its decision to wrongfully deport a Maryland man.
Donald Trumps hand-picked FCC commissioners suggestion that the NBC parent may have violated its broadcasting licenses over the way its networks covered the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia piggybacked on the White House calling CNN and MSNBC shameful for declining to air the presser.
This is also just the latest example of Carr and the Trump administration attacking media outlets over their editorial direction while threatening them with investigations and punishment.
Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American publicimplying that Abrego Garcia was merely a law abiding U.S. citizen, just a regular Maryland man. When the truth comes out, they ignore it, Carr tweeted on Wednesday night.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fcc-chair-blasts-msnbc-134139071.html
If he was given due process that likely wouldn't have happened. However, even your obese sweaty boss admitted they erred.

Blues Heron
(6,814 posts)Vinca
(51,942 posts)no_hypocrisy
(51,282 posts)This is indeed a new chapter in Alice In Wonderland.
MSNBC has journalists and fact-checkers, unlike FOX. It is not a propaganda network.
There is no evidence that demonstrates that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and/or illegally in the United States. For one thing, the TSF accusations haven't been tested and adjudicated in a court of law.
Brendan Carr, acting as the mouthpiece for TSF, is furious that he can't control "The Message".
My best guess is that Carr's next target will be Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now".