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FCC Chair Brendan Carr Blasts Scott Pelley As β€œCompletely Out Of Touch” After Journalist Says His β€˜60 Minutes’ Firing Came As A Surprise

FCC Chair Brendan Carr took to social media earlier today to slam erstwhile 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after the longtime broadcast journalist told The New York Times the idea of being fired following his tense confrontation with the newsmagazine was β€œthe furthest thing from my mind.” β€œOne of the reasons why trust in media […]

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ABC Submits Broadcast Renewal Applications to FCC β€˜Under Protest,’ Says Agency Order Is β€˜Unlawful, Arbitrary and Unconstitutional’

Disney’s ABC has submitted its license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency β€” but said it is doing so β€œunder protest.” The FCC’s Media Bureau last month issued an unprecedented order forcing ABC to reapply for spectrum licenses for its eight owned-and-operated stations on an […]

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Pop Surrealist Todd Schorr Paints the Unusual & The Arcane

Todd Schorr creates weird and ambitious works that feel like fever dreams about death, sex, and a fear that the good times are long gone. Read the full article by clicking above!

The post Pop Surrealist Todd Schorr Paints the Unusual & The Arcane first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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Judges Consider Effort To Force FCC Action On News Distortion Policy

After a group of former FCC chairs and commissioners petitioned the agency to repeal its news distortion policy last November, the current chairman Brendan Carr never acted on it. Last month, they asked an appellate court to compel him to do so. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel gave the FCC 30 days to respond to […]

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Cartoonists in the News

The news worthy cartoonists this round are Dan Martin, Dale Messick, Bret Juliano, and Alan Dunn. Dan Martin Lecture on St. Louis Cartoon History & Weatherbird Weatherbird cartoonist and St. Louis cartooning historian Dan Martin will expound on both next Sunday. By Tribune Staff β€’ Join the Madison County Historical Society at 2 p.m. on […]

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ABC Tells FCC Its Early Review Of Broadcast Licenses Chills Free Speech: β€œAn Extraordinary Demonstration Of Power And Coercion”

The Walt Disney Co. and ABC are once again pushing back on the FCC, this time over the agency’s demand that it file early renewal applications for its broadcast licenses, a move that the company calls a threat to the First Amendment. β€œIt is an extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial […]

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β€˜The Night Manager’ Team On Challenges Of Reviving A Series They Didn’t Plan To Continue: β€œWe’d Already Ended The Story”

Of all the things Tom Hiddleston remembers about the 2016 release of The Night Manager, a moment with Joe Biden immediately comes to mind. The actor, who played Jonathan Pine in the original BBC One/AMC production and its subsequent season on Prime Video, remembers how the 46th president approached him at the White House Correspondents’ […]

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