Exhibit 955 · News report
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way”: Trump’s FCC again uses the threat of its regulatory powers to push a critic off the air
Reports, quoting the New York Times, that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said on Benny Johnson’s podcast on 17 September 2025 “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” about Kimmel, and that Nexstar, Sinclair and ABC acted the same day. Page was fetched through a summarizer; the Nieman page returned an error to direct download.
- Source
- Nieman Journalism Lab (Harvard)
- Date
- 18 September 2025
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://niemanlab.org/2025/09/we-can-do-this-the-easy-way-or-the-hard-way-trumps-fcc-again-uses-the-threat-of-its-regulatory-powers-to-push-a-critic-off-the-air
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
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- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Reported. Replace with the recording of the 17 September 2025 Benny Johnson interview (timestamp) and the NYT article of 17 September 2025. The quotation here was not verified against the source.