{"id":69062,"date":"2026-03-16T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-backs-fcc-chairs-threat-to-pull-licenses-of-news-outlets-over-iran-war-coverage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:58:19","slug":"trump-backs-fcc-chairs-threat-to-pull-licenses-of-news-outlets-over-iran-war-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-backs-fcc-chairs-threat-to-pull-licenses-of-news-outlets-over-iran-war-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs FCC chair\u2019s threat to pull licenses of news outlets over Iran war coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president on social media said he was \u2018thrilled\u2019 that Brendan Carr was looking into broadcasters\u2019 licenses <\/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>Donald Trump reinforced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/14\/fcc-broadcast-permits-iran-war-news\">comments<\/a> made by Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), threatening the broadcast licenses of news organizations that report unfavorably on the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d that Carr was \u201clooking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic \u2018News\u2019 Organizations. They get Billions of Dollars of FREE American Airwaves, and use it to perpetuate LIES \u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/trump-fcc-chair-broadcast-license-threat-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president on social media said he was \u2018thrilled\u2019 that Brendan Carr was looking into broadcasters\u2019 licenses Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Donald Trump reinforced comments made by Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), threatening the broadcast licenses of news organizations &#8230; <a title=\"Trump backs FCC chair\u2019s threat to pull licenses of news outlets over Iran war coverage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-backs-fcc-chairs-threat-to-pull-licenses-of-news-outlets-over-iran-war-coverage\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump backs FCC chair\u2019s threat to pull licenses of news outlets over Iran war coverage\">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-69062","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\/69062","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=69062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}