{"id":2286099,"date":"2026-02-17T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286099"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:34:25","slug":"cbs-censorship-of-stephen-colbert-slammed-by-democratic-fcc-commissioner-as-latest-corporate-capitulation-to-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cbs-censorship-of-stephen-colbert-slammed-by-democratic-fcc-commissioner-as-latest-corporate-capitulation-to-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS \u2018Censorship\u2019 of Stephen Colbert Slammed by Democratic FCC Commissioner as Latest \u2018Corporate Capitulation\u2019 to Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stephen Colbert<\/a> said CBS<\/a>\u2019s legal department spiked his interview with a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate because of the FCC<\/a> chairman\u2019s recent warning that the agency would pursue enforcement of \u201cequal time\u201d rules on late-night and daytime talk shows. The FCC\u2019s sole Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez<\/a>, weighed in on the issue \u2014 calling the move to \u201ccensor\u201d Colbert<\/a> another example of \u201ccorporate capitulation\u201d to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is yet another troubling example of corporate capitulation in the face of this Administration\u2019s broader campaign to censor and control speech,\u201d Gomez<\/a> said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert said CBS\u2019s legal department spiked his interview with a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate because of the FCC chairman\u2019s recent warning that the agency would pursue enforcement of \u201cequal time\u201d rules on late-night and daytime talk shows. The FCC\u2019s sole Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, weighed in on the issue \u2014 calling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2286099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CBS-\u2018Censorship-of-Stephen-Colbert-Slammed-by-Democratic-FCC-Commissioner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286101,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286099\/revisions\/2286101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}