Senators urge FCC chair to end probes into CBS News, other media outlets

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

July 16, 2025 4:07 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago


WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Two Democratic U.S. senators on Wednesday urged Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr to end investigations into CBS News and other media outlets.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Ed Markey, in a letter to Carr first reported by Reuters, urged the commission "to end its partisan attacks on CBS and cease interfering with the judgment of independent news organizations."

The FCC is investigating allegations by President Donald Trump that CBS selectively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris for the "60 Minutes" program when she was running against Trump in the 2024 election campaign. Trump also sued CBS, alleging the network deceptively edited the Harris interview in an effort to "tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party” in the election.

The letter from Schumer and Markey suggested that the commission was using a double standard, and cited Fox News' editing of a June 2024 interview with then-candidate Trump over potential release of files regarding accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senators-urge-fcc-chair-end-probes-into-cbs-other-outlets-2025-07-16/

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Link to PRESS RELEASE - Senator Markey, Leader Schumer Call on FCC to Stop Partisan Games, Drop Frivolous CBS Investigation in Light of Fox News’ Misleading Editing of Trump’s Epstein Comments

Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_chairman_carr_on_trump_and_fox_news_interview.pdf

[thesquanderer]

1. The argument that the FCC should not investigate CBS *or Fox News* for how they edit interviews isn't a good one,

because Fox News, not being an over-the-air broadcaster, is not subject to having its content monitored by the FCC in the first place. The FCC chair might well agree that what Fox News did was worse... but it's also irrelevant since FN is not under their jurisdiction. But I guess the point of the letter is really to make a PR point, more than anything else.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. The "angle" with the Fox mention

is to keep the Epstein story, that is literally causing a chain-reaction meltdown in the GOP base, "in the news". It is "tabloid" and has now started to consume some of the "mainstream" media because it is generating "clicks and views", which is all they care about.

Plus, it helps to slow (although it hasn't yet been able to completely stop) the furious forward motion of destruction as the the GOP attempts to get a handle on this out of control wildfire of their own making, while we get legal remedies readied and filed.

THAT is the only way to fight these insane craven people. Use their own CT against them, by any means necessary.