Senate panel grills FCC chair over his agency’s threats to media networks, free speech

From NPR.

A senate panel grilled the chair of the Federal Communications Commission yesterday.

Brendan Carr has launched investigations of major media networks that President Trump doesn’t like, pressuring The Walt Disney Company to take action against Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show back in September, famously saying, "we can do this the easy way or the hard way."

Yesterday’s hearing highlighted the ongoing feud between the Trump administration and on-air hosts who have reported on, criticized or satirized the president, including Kimmel, who was pulled from the air over comments he made about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.