Brendan Carr, President-elect Trump's pick to chair the FCC, sent a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger expressing concern over ABC News' practices and their impact on public trust in news media.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission has called out the Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger over the way he has run ABC News, saying “Americans no longer trust the national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly.” Brendan Carr fired off a letter to Iger in the wake of ABC News’ more than $15 million settlement in Trump’s defamation suit against the Disney-owned news outlet. “Dear Mr.
Iger, Americans no longer trust the national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly,” Carr wrote, according to a copy of the December 21 correspondence posted by journalist Brian Stelter. Carr cited a recent Gallup poll showing just 31 percent of Americans gave a great deal or even a fair amount of trust in the news media — down from a high of 70 percent. “ABC’s own conduct has certainly contributed to this erosion in public trust.” ABC News recently agreed to pay $15 million to Trump’s future presidential foundation and museum, as well as an additional $1 million in attorney fees to settle the defamation case. Trump sued ABC News after host George Stephanopoulos repeated claimed on air that Trump was found “liable for rape” during a broadcast earlier this year. The New York jury in questionCarr’s letter to Iger focused primarily on ABC’s on-going negotiations with its affiliate stations, with Carr voicing concern over ABC’s growing power over its local stations, many of which provide local news to viewers. In particular, Carr said ABC”s financial agreements with its affiliates contains a fee structure that ultimately benefits Disney’s streaming services to the detriment of local stations and their ability to provide local news. He noted that Americans still continue to trust local news over national news, and that the imbalance of power will harm the gathering of local news.Carr as a “warrior for Free Speech,” saying he will take on the big tech censorship regime and champion the rights of ordinary American
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