{"id":89263,"date":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89263\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","slug":"fcc-chairman-praises-skydances-commitment-to-serious-changes-at-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89263\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chairman Praises Skydance’s “Commitment To Serious Changes At CBS”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFCC<\/a> chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> on Thursday praised Skydance Media\u2019s commitment to hire an ombudsman for CBS News<\/a> after it completes its merger with Paramount<\/a> Global.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe commitment was outlined in a filing with the FCC this week. Skydance<\/a> also said that would ensure that any diversity, equity and inclusion policies are ended.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Carr said, \u201cI was very pleased to see Skydance put in a filing that says, \u2018If this deal goes through, they are committing to serious changes at CBS<\/a>. I think that would be a good thing. They\u2019ve committed to addressing bias issues. They committed to embracing fact based journalism. They\u2019ve also committed to either not extending or removing hideous forms of DEI discrimination. I think those are all significant that they\u2019ve offered. And so we\u2019ll take a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its filing, Skydance said that the ombudsman role \u201cwill be in place for a period of two years, and will report to the president of the new Paramount company. Emphasizing that the commitment was voluntary, Skydance said that the ombudsman will \u2018promote transparency and accountability.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSkydance also said that it \u201cwill ensure that the company\u2019s array of news and entertainment programming embodies a diversity of viewpoints across the political and ideological spectrum, consistent with the varying perspectives of the viewing audience. Skydance recognizes that, as a broadcast licensee, it will be charged with operating in the public interest, and the company intends to undertake a comprehensive review of CBS and make any necessary changes to ensure compliance with that standard. In all respects, Skydance will ensure that CBS\u2019s reporting is fair, unbiased and fact-based.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarr did not say when a decision will be made on the merger or if the full commission will weigh in.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnna Gomez<\/a>, the sole Democrat on the commission, blasted Skydance\u2019s filing. She said that the company had agreed to \u201ccowardly capitulate to adopt never before seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial content. This is a direct violation of the First Amendment. \u2026 The company also said it will comply with its agency\u2019s ideological demands to undermine efforts to combat discrimination and expand equal opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSkydance has said that its commitments are voluntary, and the ombudsman role was also a commitment that Comcast made as part of its merger with NBCUniversal.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Gomez said that what Skydance has done is a commitment to a role that will \u201cserve as a check on the news division, and that is what want. \u2026 You hear over and over again \u2026 complaints about how the networks report the news. It is unfair. It is biased. They\u2019re constantly complaining about it, which, by the way, I find very rich that we keep talking about the loss of trust in journalism when this administration has spent the last 10 years sowing this trust in mainstream media. So I think it\u2019s really problematic that this was done in order to gain approval of a transaction from a regulatory agency that should not be interfering in the freedom of the press.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FCC chairman Brendan Carr on Thursday praised Skydance Media\u2019s commitment to hire an ombudsman for CBS News after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57485,51396,15328,26871,69,36555,171,36397,15329,51039,26873,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-89263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-anna-gomez","9":"tag-brendan-carr","10":"tag-cbs","11":"tag-cbs-news","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-electionline","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-fcc","16":"tag-paramount","17":"tag-paramount-skydance-merger","18":"tag-skydance","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114909563290636478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}