2026-04-30T16:27:00.47Z / 路透社
作者：戴维·谢泼德森
2026年4月30日 格林尼治标准时间16:27 更新于31分钟前
华盛顿，4月30日（路透社）——美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）负责人周四否认白宫曾施压要求提前启动对迪士尼旗下八家美国广播公司（ABC）电视台的执照审查。
这项极不寻常的审查在总统唐纳德·特朗普敦促ABC解雇深夜脱口秀主持人吉米·坎摩尔的次日宣布。
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“这是我们在本机构内部做出的决定，”FCC主席布伦丹·卡尔表示，并补充道，“没有来自外部的压力……也没有外部要求本机构采取行动。”
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卡尔表示，此次审查是针对迪士尼和ABC的多元化运营举措，而非其播出的内容。“FCC不应充当言论警察，”卡尔说道。
卡尔于2025年3月启动了针对迪士尼多元化运营举措的调查，并表示迪士尼上周提交的调查相关文件在他看来不够充分。他还表示，计划启动另一项提前审查，并拒绝透露是否会对康卡斯特和NBC的多元化运营举措开展类似的提前审查。
布伦丹·卡尔，FCC主席，2026年3月27日出席在德克萨斯州格普莱恩斯盖洛德德克萨斯度假村及会议中心举办的美国保守派政治行动会议（CPAC）。路透社/丹尼尔·科尔/档案照片
民主党籍FCC委员安娜·戈麦斯表示，迪士尼的执照纠纷可能需要数年诉讼才能解决。她称，多元化议题显然是一个借口。
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“这应该给所有关注此事的媒体公司上一课——妥协并不等于获得保护。本届政府会持续施压，提出更多要求。唯一的应对方式是挺身而出、奋起反抗并捍卫第一修正案，”戈麦斯说道。
4月23日，在迪士尼旗下ABC播出节目的吉米·坎摩尔在模仿白宫记者协会年度晚宴的表演中开玩笑称，第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普“光彩照人，像个待产的寡妇”。
该玩笑在华盛顿举办的、旨在庆祝新闻自由和言论自由的正式晚宴前三天被放出。总统和第一夫人在一场暗杀未遂事件后被紧急带离晚宴现场。
坎摩尔周一表示，“待产的寡妇”这一表述“显然是在调侃两人的年龄差距”，该玩笑遭到了误读。特朗普将于6月年满80岁，而他的妻子本月刚度过56岁生日。
“无论从哪个定义来看，这都不是在呼吁暗杀，”坎摩尔说道。
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FCC chair says White House did not pressure him to open Disney review
2026-04-30T16:27:00.47Z / Reuters
By David Shepardson
April 30, 2026 4:27 PM UTC Updated 31 mins ago
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday denied that the White House pressured him to open an early license review of Disney’s eight ABC television stations.
The highly unusual reviews were announced a day after President Donald Trump urged ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
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“This is a decision that we made inside this building,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr said, adding that, “there was no pressure from the outside…. There was no call for agency action from the outside.”
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Carr said the review was prompted by Disney and ABC’s diversity practices, not content that has aired. “The FCC should not operate as the speech police,” Carr said.
Carr opened an investigation in March 2025 into Disney’s diversity practices and he said Disney submitted documents last week in the probe that he felt were insufficient. He also said he is planning to open another early review and he declined to say if a similar review of diversity practices at Comcast and NBC could lead to an early review there.
Brendan Carr, FCC Chairman, attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) USA 2026 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, in Grapevine, Texas, U.S., March 27, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo
Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez said the Disney license fight could take years of litigation to resolve. She said the diversity issue was clearly a pretext.
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“This should be a lesson to every media company watching — capitulation does not mean protection. This administration will keep coming back, demanding more. The only answer is to stand up, fight back and defend the First Amendment,” Gomez said.
On April 23, Kimmel, whose late-night TV program airs on Disney’s ABC, did a send-up of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, joking that First Lady Melania Trump had “a glow like an expectant widow.”
The joke was made three days before the actual black-tie dinner, celebrating press freedom and free speech, in Washington. The president and first lady were rushed from the dinner following an assassination attempt.
Kimmel said Monday the “expectant widow” comment “obviously was a joke about their age difference,” that had been misconstrued. Trump will be 80 in June, and his wife turned 56 this month.
“It was not by any stretch of the definition a call for assassination,” Kimmel said.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Hugh Lawson
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