- Expensive Gifts: Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.
- Conflict of Interest: Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
- Mixing Business and Pleasure: After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth over $12,000. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63,000.
FCC officials took pricey gifts from Paramount as company needed approval for billion-dollar deals
https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/fcc-officials-paramount-cbs-gifts
6 Comments
darth_grunkus@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 49d
And their base cheers on the blatant corruption. If Democrats were doing even a fraction of all this corrupt stuff the same people would be completely losing their shit and demanding impeachment/prison/execution/etc.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
The base is full of the worst people. You know, 'real Americans'.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 49d
Who do they think they are, Supreme Court Justices?
DrPop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 48d
The people who turn a blind eye to this, are the same people who got mad at AOC for wearing a loaned dress to a photo shoot.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
Carr is a smug little shit, and definitely needs to see his comeuppance.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 48d
Republicans need to pay in the mid-terms