Chuck Darwin<p>‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media</p><p>The Trump administration is waging a 🆘disturbing attack on the freedom of the press <br>that amounts to a <br>🔥“true free-speech emergency”, media experts have warned, <br>as the Federal Communications Commission recently launched an <a href="https://c.im/tags/investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigation</span></a> into a series of media organizations, including the owner of NBC News.<br>The FCC, led by Donald Trump appointee and Project 2025 author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brendan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brendan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carr</span></a>, has ordered <br>💥investigations into <a href="https://c.im/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> in the first month since Trump took office, <br>while also scrutinizing a <a href="https://c.im/tags/CBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBS</span></a> News interview and a San Francisco radio station.<br>In a letter to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Comcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comcast</span></a>, which owns NBC News, Carr said he had asked the FCC’s enforcement bureau to “open an investigation” into the corporation, stating: <br>“I am concerned that Comcast and NBCUniversal may be promoting invidious forms of <a href="https://c.im/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> in a manner that does not comply with FCC regulations.”<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/trump-free-speech-media-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f</span><span class="invisible">eb/24/trump-free-speech-media-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>