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On the Media

Brendan Carr’s F.C.C. Has Been Busy. Plus, Rewriting the History of Watergate.

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Brendan Carr’s report card, revising Watergate, and Trump’s war on museums

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we have to work together to smash the censorship cartel.

0:03.7

The new chairman of the FCC is putting the squeeze on news outlets.

0:08.6

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:11.3

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:12.7

And I'm Michael Loinger.

0:14.0

Also on this week's show, there's a reason that some on the right want to reshape our collective memory of Watergate.

0:25.6

The idea that a clear majority of the country could be so repulsed by a president's authoritarianism,

0:28.6

let's make sure that never comes back again. Plus, for Brian Stevenson, the Trump administration's targeting of the Smithsonian for, quote,

0:34.6

improper ideology, makes the case for confronting America's darkest

0:39.9

legacies. I'm not interested in talking about these things because I want to punish America.

0:44.9

I want to liberate us. There's thriving democracy waiting for us, but we can't get there

0:50.1

if we don't have the courage to be honest about the things that have held us back.

0:54.4

It's all coming up after this.

0:59.9

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Michael Lohinger.

1:04.9

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:06.5

On Tuesday, amid remembrances of Pope Francis and Earth Day celebrations,

1:12.0

the dramatic resignation of a guy named Bill Owens still managed to make the news, for good reason.

1:19.3

This is huge news, and I mean, this literally shook the media news world today.

1:24.3

The executive producer of CBS News's 60 Minutes, calling it quits today.

1:28.7

He had been with the news program for 24 years, 37 years at CBS. Now, normally, that would

1:34.6

probably not be news that we would bring you, except the circumstances rise to the level of,

1:40.9

well, alarm. Owen said in a letter to his staff that, quote, over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 minutes, right for the audience.

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