FCC Chairman Launches Probe Into BBC, NPR, PBS

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday sent a letter to executives of BBC, NPR, and PBS announcing that the agency has launched an investigation into the British public broadcaster’s misleading edits of President Donald Trump’s speech on January 6, Breitbart reported.

Carr wrote the letter to Tim Davie, the director general of BBC, Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, and Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, after the BBC was “caught intentionally distorting a speech that President Trump gave in January of 2021.”

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman included PBS and NPR in the investigatory letter because the two outlets distribute BBC programming in the United States.

Carr said that the BBC spliced “together one portion of the speech with an entirely separate portion of the speech that came 54 minutes later.”

He added, “In doing so, the BBC program depicts President Trump voicing a sentence that, in fact, he never uttered. That would appear to meet the very definition of publishing a materially false and damaging statement.”

The FCC chief stated that the misleading edits of the president’s speech received “widespread condemnation.” The 47th president believed that the edits were so damaging that he has sued the BBC, seeking up to $5 million in damages from the public broadcaster.