Brendan Carr
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316 appearances
10 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 May
Brendan Carr’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they said equal time, if you're going to have one candidate on provide equal time for the other.
And it's funny for me to see people claiming that this is censorship.
It's the opposite of that.
There is nothing about the equal time rule that would ever prohibit anybody from having any candidate on the air.
It simply says their opposition candidates should get an equal opportunity potentially
Well, one reason that's slightly different than the fairness doctrine is the fairness doctrine said, if you're going to cover a controversial issue of public importance, right then and there, you got to give the left perspective and the right perspective.
But the equal timing is you can have just one candidate on your broadcast TV or radio program, but at some point in the future, uh,
A different host, a different time, they get equal comparable airtimes.
It doesn't require you to do it in the moment the same way that the Fairness Doctrine would have done.
But Congress admitted and said, you know what, let's create some exceptions to this.
And they created exceptions for what are known as bonafide news programs.
So if you're a bonafide news program, Congress was thinking about Meet the Press and different programs like that.
that you're just actually doing sort of journalistic work, you're not trying to put a thumb on the scale for a candidate, you're just trying to interview someone with normal journalistic questions, you don't have to abide by equal time.
Okay, flash forward.
Over the last 30 or 40 years, everybody came to the FCC and they were getting dexter ruling to say that they were bonafide news programs and therefore exempt.
People effectively read the exception as swallowing the rule, and they said anything goes.
Any TV program, any radio program is now bona fide news.
The exception swallows the rule.
And what we did at the beginning of the year was we said, listen, that's not what the statute says.
That's not actually what the FCC case law says, so just be mindful.
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