Commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC reviewed the company's megamergers.
Commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC reviewed the company's megamergers
Published
August 4, 2026 6:00AM (EDT)
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 21, 2025. (John McDonnell/Getty Images))
This article originally appeared on ProPublica.
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that…
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica.…
A new report reveals how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, and other FCC officials, were rewarded after votes helping out Paramount.
Experts told ProPublica that accepting the gifts compromised the FCC’s impartiality.
The event, which was broadcast on Paramount-owned CBS, has long invited FCC commissioners and other government officials.
