The Daily Beast
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into NPR and PBS over the public broadcasters’ airing of commercials. Brendan Carr, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, sent a letter to NPR chief Katherine Maher and PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger informing them of the probe, according to The New York Times. “I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Carr wrote. “In particular, it is possibl