FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom—Until Trump Fires Her
If you’ve given much thought to the Federal Communications Commission in recent years, it probably had something to do with Brendan Carr. The group’s chairman since 2025, Carr has been on an ongoing, public rampage against freedom of speech: he’s gone after late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, threatened to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war coverage, and targeted networks for their DEI policies.
Disturbing as Carr’s rhetoric and actions have been, he does count at least one opponent within the agency: Commissioner Anna Gomez, currently the lone Democrat among three FCC commissioners, has been vocal about the damage she thinks the agency is doing to American press freedom—and has repeatedly urged the public and the press, namely major networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC, to fight back.
In May, Commissioner Gomez penned a stunning public letterto Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, wherein she warned that the company—which owns ABC—was...
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