Brendan Carr the head of The FCC who has previously threatened Americas media with investigations over their news coverage of Donald Trump and was a catalyst in Disney-ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel from his late night show has been tasked with investigating The BBC over its broadcast of a Panorama episode that dealt with Trump's involvement with the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.
(Just to be clear the Panorama programme in question was never broadcast in the U.S. as its geoblocked and BBC's Iplayer isn't available in America.)
A US media regulator led by a close ally of Donald Trump is examining whether an edition of the BBC’s Panorama broke US regulations in the way it edited one of the president’s speeches.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led by Brendan Carr, has written to the BBC’s outgoing director general, Tim Davie, asking whether the programme was ever aired in the US.
Davie and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, resigned after complaints about the show by a former independent adviser to the broadcaster. The BBC has since apologised for splicing two clips of a speech Trump made before the Capitol riots in January 2021.
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