Posted on 03/25/2025 10:17:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Media and telecommunication companies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology will face increased scrutiny from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with the agency potentially moving to block license transfers and acquisitions in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s executive order barring DEI policies across the federal government. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says the agency will no longer approve merger and acquisition proposals from companies that promote “invidious” DEI policies that result in unfair discrimination.
“Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Chairman Carr said in a recent media interview. “We can only, under the statute, move forward and approve a transaction if we find that doing so serves the public interest.”
“If there’s businesses out there that are still promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination, I really don’t see a path forward where the FCC could reach the conclusion that approving the transaction is going to be in the public interest,” Carr added.
The new FCC regulatory position could impact several major pending media and telecommunications deals unless the companies involved drop their DEI policies and programs. Notably, the FCC is currently reviewing a merger between Paramount Global—the parent company of CBS News—and Skydance, a media production and finance company. Carr’s agency is also examining Verizon’s $20 billion deal to acquire Frontier Communications and T-Mobile’s $4.4 billion acquisition of U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations.
Already, Chairman Carr has warned Verizon that continuing its DEI policies violates Trump administration policies and could jeopardize its deal to purchase Frontier.
Meanwhile, telecommunications giant AT&T announced it had begun the process of ending its DEI programs last month.
I dream of a day when white women in commercials will be allowed to marry someone of their own race.
Take them ALL OFF THE AIR.
or a day when white men are not buffoons
In other words, DEI mimics Democrats. It becomes what it was supposed to prevent.
Have I got that right?
The Federal government should care if a private company believes or promotes a philosophy.
That said, I think Disney discovered that the market won’t support DEI anymore. Their latest Snow White opened to crushing losses.
Or when the next door neighbors don’t have to be a gay couple.
What is the racial makeup of DEI offices?
What is the racial makeup of DEI offices?
I dream of the day when white men on TV are portrayed as men again, and not as bumbling idiots that their tv spouses have to mock.
I actually made a list of products to boycott that had such ads,.
PISSED me off royally.
MERIT MUST RETURN SO THE USA CAN SURVIVE.
Drop DEI or we will rearrange the letters for you.
Been going on for at least 15 years. I commented on it to my co-worker about this. It got so bad a few years ago, a black man and white woman had asian and hispanic children, all in one commercial. Fing ridiculous.
Anytime I see these ads, I make a note NOT to buy their products. I have an adopted black daughter, but these ads are so in your face (and it is ALL of them), that it is insulting, especially since there are still black family ads.
“If I’m reading this right (and a web search has explained the word “invidious” well enough) the problem isn’t in the core idea behind diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, it’s when the applications of DEI swings too far to marginalize merit and serves to itself causes discrimination by race, sex, gender, or ethnic origin.”
What is DEI if it’s not the substitution of race, sex, gender, and ethnic origins for meritocracy? I can’t think of a single positive thing about DEI (unless I’m a recipient of its discrimination).
In a private company? Who cares. If you don’t like their policies, don’t do business with them. If the government doesn’t want to renew their contracts, go find someone else.
We cannot trade one set of regulations on private companies for “our” set.
We want government OUT of business.
If DEI is removed the democrats won’t have much to work with OH WAIT.
Does this mean television/streaming commercials will no longer be exclusively black or mixed race?
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