Federal Communications Commission (FCC) new Chair Brendan Carr previously said that one of his main priorities will be to ensure broadcast companies are fulfilling their duty to “serve the public interest.” An example of Commissioner Carr “serving the public interest” is his November statement to Fox News regarding allegations that CBS’s 60 Minutes altered part of their interview with then-Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to make her answers appear more concise and knowledgeable. CBS says the edits were done to make the interview fit within the 21-minute time limit, and in fact they played an unedited version of the Vice President’s responses earlier that day on Face the Nation. However, CBS refused to release a transcript of the unedited interview. Carr says he will use the “public interest” requirement to challenge the merger between Paramount, which owns CBS and Skydance.
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