Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning Paramount
Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning Paramount
布伦丹·卡尔领导下的 FCC 更关心《观点》节目采访了谁，而不是外国政府持有派拉蒙的股份
The commission is waiving its rules to let foreign wealth funds own 49.5 percent of Paramount-Warner Bros. 委员会正在豁免其相关规定，允许外国主权财富基金持有派拉蒙-华纳兄弟公司 49.5% 的股份。
The FCC has announced it’s waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company. 美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）宣布，在派拉蒙-华纳兄弟公司的案例中，将豁免其关于外国股权持有比例不得超过 25% 的规定，并允许由沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔和阿布扎比政府运营的三家主权财富基金持有该公司 49.5% 的股份。
During Brendan Carr’s tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC, tried to block stations from airing interviews with Democrats, censored late-night TV hosts, and tried to bully journalists. However, it seems to have no qualms with repressive foreign governments owning a significant stake in a giant American media conglomerate. 在布伦丹·卡尔（Brendan Carr）任职期间，FCC 多次威胁美国广播公司（ABC），试图阻止电视台播出对民主党人的采访，审查深夜电视节目主持人，并试图欺凌记者。然而，对于压制性外国政府持有美国大型媒体集团的重要股份，该委员会似乎毫无顾虑。
In its ruling, the FCC defended the decision, saying that, because the stocks being purchased did not have voting rights, they “will not be able to wield any influence, let alone control, over decisions involving the Licensees.” 在其裁决中，FCC 为这一决定进行了辩护，称由于所购买的股票没有投票权，它们“将无法对涉及被许可人的决策施加任何影响，更不用说控制了”。
Of course, many, including the advocacy group Free Press and a number of Democrats, are not buying that. According to Variety, Free Press noted its opposition, saying that “control over for-profit, commercial domestic news media by any government is an extraordinary situation that would surely strike most Americans as unseemly, precisely because of the utility of the news media as a propaganda tool for those governments.” 当然，包括倡导组织“自由新闻”（Free Press）和多位民主党人在内的许多人并不买账。据《综艺》（Variety）报道，自由新闻表达了反对意见，称“任何政府对营利性商业国内新闻媒体的控制都是一种非同寻常的情况，这肯定会让大多数美国人感到不妥，因为新闻媒体正是这些政府用作宣传工具的手段。”
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, posted on X, “The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros. An investment this large in one of America’s biggest media companies doesn’t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and made.” FCC 唯一的民主党籍委员安娜·戈麦斯（Anna Gomez）在 X 上发文称：“FCC 刚刚让世界上一些最压制性的政府间接控制了合并后的派拉蒙-华纳兄弟公司近乎全部的业务。对美国最大的媒体公司之一进行如此大规模的投资，买下的不仅仅是股权，更是对媒体内容制作和言论导向的影响力。”