We were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast.

CBS pulled an interview from the late show with Stephen Colbert for fear of triggering the FCC's equal time rule.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Driving this latest crusade to crush the liberal media is a lawyer

on a complaint writing campaign. One of the things that I find frustrating about Cobre is that

apparently we have people who think they are entitled to treat their shows like their private

property rather than being responsive to their corporate management. An FCC chair, Brendan Carr, acting on the complaints filed,

is changing the way business is done at his agency.

Brendan Carr was using the old standards that his party

has really not wanted anything to do with for our entire lives

to now say we're going to punish these broadcasters

who don't follow these old rules that everyone forgot about.

It's all coming up after this.

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

Michael Lohencher's out this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This past Monday, the host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert sat behind his desk and in an unusual move,

introduced a guest who would not be on his show that night.

Texas State Representative James Tala Rico, he was supposed to be here,

but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly

that we could not have him on the broadcast. Because Tala Rico's primary election would begin

the next day, so airing the segment would violate the equal time rule enshrined in the Communications

Act of 1934. That says if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidate's

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