{"id":68978,"date":"2026-03-14T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/fcc-chair-threatens-to-throttle-news-broadcasts-over-hoaxes-about-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:03:36","slug":"fcc-chair-threatens-to-throttle-news-broadcasts-over-hoaxes-about-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/fcc-chair-threatens-to-throttle-news-broadcasts-over-hoaxes-about-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over \u2018hoaxes\u2019 about Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of \u2018mainstream news\u2019 outlets for \u2018misleading\u2019 coverage<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s communications licensing tsar fired a warning shot over the US broadcasting industry Saturday, threatening to cancel the spectrum permits of broadcasters pushing what he termed \u201choaxes and news distortions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr posted on social media that broadcasters running \u201cfake news \u2013 have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/14\/fcc-broadcast-permits-iran-war-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of \u2018mainstream news\u2019 outlets for \u2018misleading\u2019 coverage The Trump administration\u2019s communications licensing tsar fired a warning shot over the US broadcasting industry Saturday, threatening to cancel the spectrum permits of broadcasters pushing what he termed \u201choaxes and news distortions\u201d. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr &#8230; <a title=\"FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over \u2018hoaxes\u2019 about Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/fcc-chair-threatens-to-throttle-news-broadcasts-over-hoaxes-about-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over \u2018hoaxes\u2019 about Iran war\">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-68978","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\/68978","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=68978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}