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How Brendan Carr’s attack on TV stations echoes FCC chairman under JFK

By Frederic J. Frommer
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Federal Communications Committee Chairman Brendan Carr’s clampdown on TV stations has a surprising antecedent. Sixty-five years ago, another activist FCC chief, Newton N. Minow, also read the riot act to TV networks.

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