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“We can do this the easy way or the hard way”: Trump’s FCC again uses the threat of its regulatory powers to push a critic off the air www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/we-c...

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“We can do this the easy way or the hard way”: Trump’s FCC again uses the threat of its regulatory powers to push a critic off the air This is supposed to be a website about media innovation, so I suppose we must acknowledge the innovation of Brendan Carr, Donald Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission. For decades,… https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/we-can-do-this-the-easy-way-or-the-hard-way-trumps-fcc-again-uses-the-threat-of-its-regulatory-powers-to-push-a-critic-off-the-air/