NY POST: FCC chair Brendan Carr restores bias complaints by Trump against ABC, NBC, CBS over campaign coverage
New FCC chair Brendan Carr reversed a last-minute decision by the Biden administration-led regulator to reject bias complaints lodged by Donald Trump against three network TV news broadcasters, the agency said Wednesday.
Carr moved the complaints against ABC, NBC and CBS – which accused them of being partial to Democrat Kamala Harris in their their coverage of the presidential campaign – back to a pending status, according to the Federal Communications Commision website.
A representative for the FCC and Carr did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Last week, Jessica Rosenworcel, the Democratic chair under Biden, dismissed the three claims, arguing they sought “to curtail freedom of the press.”
If Rosenworcel had acted on the media complaints a few weeks earlier, it would have prevented Carr from being able to reverse the decision because, since there is typically a 30-day buffer period, a source familiar with the matter told The Post.
The three FCC complaints in question were filed by The Center for American Rights, a conservative nonprofit law firm.