"He's long spoken out against government censorship and for the freedom of speech. In 2019. Carr posted on social media. Quote. Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in. The name of the public interest'.' In 2021, he wrote. Quote, A newsroom's decision about what stories to cover and how to frame them should be beyond the reach of any government official.'"
"In 2022, Carr posted, quote, political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.' In 2023, he said, quote, free speech is the counterweight it is the chec"
Mika Brzezinski confronted FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for urging licensed stations to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! and cited Carr's prior public statements defending political satire and newsroom independence. Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended by ABC after backlash over a monologue criticizing the MAGA movement's response to a killing, and Nexstar moved to preempt the program after Carr urged individual licensed stations to step up. Brzezinski read Carr's 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023 remarks condemning government censorship, asserting newsroom autonomy, and calling political satire an essential form of free speech. She framed Carr's intervention as inconsistent with those prior positions and criticized the agency chair for encouraging station-level censorship.
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