• 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.

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[–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    Who do they think they are, Supreme Court Justices?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Carr is a smug little shit, and definitely needs to see his comeuppance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Republicans need to pay in the mid-terms

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