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Top daytime talk show folds to Trump admin intimidation and ‘changes’ programing: report
Brendan Carr Doesn’t Need to Ban Speech When He Can Intimidate ItThe Real ActorThe reporting on The View is not mainly about a daytime talk show getting more cautious. It is about state power doing what it often does best when it wants to avoid the optics of censorship: it makes a threat, and private institutions do the shrinking for it.According to Semafor’s reporting, ABC’s show changed its booking behavior after the Trump FCC, led by Brendan Carr, opened an inquiry over equal-time rules. That is the center of the story. Not “programming adjustments.” Not “editorial caution.” A regulator…
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