Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica.
  • Expensive Gifts: Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.
  • Conflict of Interest: Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
  • Mixing Business and Pleasure: After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth over $12,000. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63,000.
  • Sir ᑕOᔕᗰO Bluebeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    And their base cheers on the blatant corruption. If Democrats were doing even a fraction of all this corrupt stuff the same people would be completely losing their shit and demanding impeachment/prison/execution/etc.