Although ABC tries to protect “The View” from certain federal requirements by claiming it is a “bona fide news program,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is pushing back.
He has repeatedly asserted that “The View” does not deserve the same exception to “equal time” requirements afforded to actual news programming.
This week, as Breitbart reported, he provided a video clip outlining exactly how he came to that conclusion:
“Disney claims that its decisions are based on “newsworthiness”—rather than partisan purposes—and thus exempt from political equal time rules,” he added to the video post.
ADVERTISEMENT“The FCC will make its decision based on all relevant evidence and precedents,” he concluded on his July 30 X post.
The video shows various members of The View’s panel advocating exclusively for the Democrat Party and denigrating Republicans.
Here’s the post:
Disney is arguing to the FCC that its ABC show The View is a “bona fide news program”
Disney claims that its decisions are based on “newsworthiness”—rather than partisan purposes—and thus exempt from political equal time rules
Here’s some of the show
The FCC will make its…
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) July 30, 2026
And here’s a sampling of the reaction it received:
They need to be CANCELED for their lies!!!! They are paid to be so woke and far left and against families it pathetic! What happened to some of them saying if Trump won they'd leave the country. Well, I'm waiting!! They are, in my opinion, EVIL and spreading evil!
— Amie Demaris (@AmieDemaris) August 1, 2026
They were always a talk show as far back as I can remember.
Actually, more of a family talk show.
It's not a news show. it's more hate than news
Sorry, I forgot to fill out the FCC form Ch7 posted during commercials before deadlineBarbara Walter's is rolling in her grave 😪
— Eddie's EVO 3D (@Eddies_EVO_3D) July 31, 2026
Why is the FCC dancing around this? We all know the view is anything other than a news channel. It’s a Democratic propaganda channel.
— Dennis McLellan (@nutquacker1) August 1, 2026
Meanwhile, the FCC chief has been addressing concerns that the agency is overreaching its authority, as Politico reported:
“I don’t view the FCC as the speech police,” Carr told POLITICO’s Dasha Burns during an interview this week for her podcast “The Conversation.” (The full video was posted online Friday.) At the same time, though, “we should be appropriately applying and enforcing the laws that Congress passed,” he added — including a nearly century-old requirement that broadcasters use their exclusive, federally granted licenses to advance the “public interest.”
ADVERTISEMENT“I think in the media space in particular, the FCC over the last 20 or 30 years really backed away from the regulatory framework that Congress put in place,” Carr said. “And I don’t think it’s been a good thing, either in terms of our job of administering the law or the outcome that we’re seeing across the media sector.”
He added that public polling bears out his warnings that much of the news media has squandered the public’s trust. He believes his agency can play a role in counteracting that trend, including by invoking long-unused rules against “news distortion,” requiring balance in interviews with political candidates, and bolstering the power of TV station owners to override networks’ programming decisions.
“Fifteen percent of people would eat gas station sushi,” Carr said. “Only 8 percent of people say they have a great deal of trust” in the media.
Here’s the full interview:
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