{"id":67164,"date":"2026-02-24T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/senate-democrats-investigate-cbs-over-blocked-colbert-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:59:00","slug":"senate-democrats-investigate-cbs-over-blocked-colbert-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/senate-democrats-investigate-cbs-over-blocked-colbert-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats investigate CBS over blocked Colbert interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Blumenthal seeks records from FCC and Paramount Global amid claims of political censorship<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-senate\">Senate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> are launching an investigation into whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the CBS parent company, Paramount, prevented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/stephen-colbert\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>, the network\u2019s talkshow host, from broadcasting an interview with the Texas Democratic candidate, James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate\u2019s permanent subcommittee on investigations, has written to the FCC\u2019s enforcement bureau and to the CEO of Paramount Skydance, David Ellison. The Democratic senator demands information and documents relating to the Colbert controversy, including any communications with Donald Trump\u2019s White House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/colbert-interview-senate-democrats-cbs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Blumenthal seeks records from FCC and Paramount Global amid claims of political censorship Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox US Senate Democrats are launching an investigation into whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the CBS parent company, Paramount, prevented Stephen Colbert, the network\u2019s talkshow &#8230; <a title=\"Senate Democrats investigate CBS over blocked Colbert interview\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/senate-democrats-investigate-cbs-over-blocked-colbert-interview\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate Democrats investigate CBS over blocked Colbert interview\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}