Jane Fonda’s Committee For The First Amendment Issues Response To FCC Chair Threats Against Broadcasters’ Iran War Coverage

Ahead of Oscars Sunday, Jane Fonda’s recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment released a statement condemning and warning about escalating attacks on free speech and media — a direct response to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr’s threats against TV broadcasters’ licenses for their Iran War coverage.

“Today is not a normal Oscars,” the statement begins. “Yesterday, the sitting Federal Communications Commission Chair, Brendan Carr, threatened that TV broadcasters must ‘course correct’ their coverage of the Iran war or ‘the [sic] will lose their licenses.’”

“FCC Carr’s threat to punish reporting on the war that the Trump administration doesn’t like came just one day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth openly called for celebrity.land to be taken over by Paramount — and just one hour after the president posted an image outlining his plan to ‘reshape the media’ by defunding public news, firing late-night hosts and news anchors,…