FCC Commissioner Sounds Alarms About Free Speech 'Chilling Effect' Under Trump

FCC commissioner sounds alarms about free speech ‘chilling effect’ under Trump

Federal Communications Commissioner Anna M. Gomez traveled to Los Angeles this week to sound an alarm that attacks on the media by President Trump and his lieutenants could fray the fabric of the 1st Amendment. Gomez’s appearance Wednesday at Cal State L.A. was designed to take feedback from community members about the changed media atmosphere since Trump returned to office. The president initially expelled Associated Press journalists from the …

FCC commissioner sounds alarms about free speech 'chilling effect' under Trump

"We all need to understand what is happening," FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez told an audience at a free press event.

FCC Yanks 2 Radio Station Licenses in Southeast Texas

The Federal Communications Commission has revoked two station licenses in Southeast Texas after the licensee failed to pay station regulatory fees for seven years. Kremling Enterprises used to own station licenses for KYKM(FM) in Yoakum, Texas, and KTXM(FM) in Hallettsville. On May 30, the FCC said Kremling was stripped of said licenses after failing to pay off its 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024 regulatory fee debt owed to the commission,…

Gomez: Efforts to Chill Speech Are Working

Efforts by the White House and FCC to chill speech are succeeding, Commissioner Anna Gomez said at an event Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, hosted by Free Press. It marked the first stop outside Washington, D.C., for Gomez's "First Amendment...

FCC’s Gomez Warns of Coordinated Federal Effort to Silence Newsrooms | Radio & Television Business Report

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez issued a forceful rebuke of what she described as a coordinated federal campaign to intimidate journalists and pressure news organizations into silence, warning that regulatory power is increasingly being used as a political weapon. “If I get fired, it isn’t because I didn’t do my job—it’s because I insisted on doing it,” Gomez said during a public forum held this week as part of her “First Amendment Tour,” an initiat…

FCC's Gomez Sounds Alarm on Press Freedom, Own Job Threat

"If I get fired, it isn’t because I didn’t do my job - it’s because I insisted on doing it.” That statement from an increasingly bold Anna Gomez, as the FCC Commissioner took a fiery, no-holds-barred stance on the Commission's recent actions at a Los Angeles town hall.