FCC is investigating NPR and PBS

Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS
Brendan Carr, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission under President Trump, says the public broadcasters are being investigated for allegedly running commercials.
Trump's FCC is coming from NPR and PBS now too
In one of his first major acts since taking over as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has directed the agency to open an investigation into NPR and PBS. Carr informed informed both organizations of the probe in a letter in a letter that was first reported by The New York Times.
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Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR’s and PBS’s sponsorships.
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I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Carr wrote on Wednesday in a letter to NPR chief executive Katherine Maher and PBS chief executive Paula A.
The FCC is investigating NPR and PBS
The investigations are ostensibly about PBS and NPR’s member stations’ sponsorships, according to a letter from Carr obtained by the Times. “I am concerned that NPR and PBS
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