{"id":69019,"date":"2026-03-15T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/republican-rebukes-fcc-chairs-threats-to-revoke-broadcast-licenses-over-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:57:46","slug":"republican-rebukes-fcc-chairs-threats-to-revoke-broadcast-licenses-over-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/republican-rebukes-fcc-chairs-threats-to-revoke-broadcast-licenses-over-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican rebukes FCC chair\u2019s threats to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ron Johnson pushes back, saying he\u2019s not in favor of government meddling in freedom of speech<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair, Brendan Carr, is facing pushback from a Republican lawmaker after warning on Saturday that broadcasters could lose their licenses if they run what the federal agency deems \u201cfake news\u201d over the Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said in an interview on the Sunday Briefing on Fox News that he was not in favor of the government control of private enterprise or efforts to meddle with freedom of speech protected under the constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/15\/fcc-chair-broadcasters-license-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ron Johnson pushes back, saying he\u2019s not in favor of government meddling in freedom of speech The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair, Brendan Carr, is facing pushback from a Republican lawmaker after warning on Saturday that broadcasters could lose their licenses if they run what the federal agency deems \u201cfake news\u201d over the Iran &#8230; <a title=\"Republican rebukes FCC chair\u2019s threats to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/republican-rebukes-fcc-chairs-threats-to-revoke-broadcast-licenses-over-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican rebukes FCC chair\u2019s threats to revoke broadcast licenses over 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-69019","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\/69019","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=69019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}