Sly As a Fox

FCC boss Brendan Carr has curiously spared one major media organization from his wrath: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation.

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Oliver Darcy
February 04, 2025

FCC boss Brendan Carr. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Brendan Carr has been busy as of late.

The Donald Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has aggressively wielded his office’s power in recent weeks — pressuring CBS to hand over raw material from its “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, reinstating pro-Trump petitions against ABC and NBC from the 2024 election, and launching alarming new investigations into NPR, PBS, and the Soros-backed Audacy. Simply put, Carr has been on a tear.

Yet, amid this sweeping FCC crackdown — one that could profoundly reshape the media landscape — Carr has curiously spared one major media organization: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation.

While reinstating petitions against CBS, NBC, and ABC, Carr conspicuously…

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Elon Musk appears at a rally for Donald Trump. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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