Stephen Colbert said CBS’s legal department spiked his interview with a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate because of the FCC chairman’s recent warning that the agency would pursue enforcement of “equal time” rules on late-night and daytime talk shows. The FCC’s sole Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, weighed in on the issue — calling the move to “censor” Colbert another example of “corporate capitulation” to the Trump administration.
“This is yet another troubling example of corporate capitulation in the face of this Administration’s broader campaign to censor and control speech,” Gomez said in a statement Tuesday. “The FCC has no lawful authority to pressure broadcasters for political purposes
→ Continue reading at Variety
