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  "description": "‘An act of resistance.’",
  "path": "/honoree-declines-fcc-accessibility-award/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-07-22T18:57:20.000Z",
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    "_2025 Chairman’s Awards_",
    "_announced he will not attend Thursday’s FCC ceremony in protest._",
    "_in a statement_",
    "_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_",
    "There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...",
    "_Congress approved Trump’s $9 billion rescissions bill that cut_"
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, July 22, 2025 – Federal Communications Commission Chairman **Brendan Carr** is being stood up by**** a prominent honoree.\n\n**Larry Goldberg** ,**** a recipient of the _2025 Chairman’s Awards_ for Advancement in Accessibility, _announced he will not attend Thursday’s FCC ceremony in protest._\n\n“After careful reflection, I have decided to decline the award,” Goldberg said _in a statement_posted with permission on the website of the Law Offices of Lainey Feingold.\n\n\n\n_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_\n\n There's a whole community behind your FREE membership... \n\nGoldberg, who has nearly 30 years of experience in accessible media and public broadcasting, was selected for the award based on his extensive efforts developing captioning and audio description. This contribution greatly benefited the deaf community.\n\nOver the past decade, Goldberg has been an active player at the FCC. He volunteered as co-chair of the FCC’s Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee and served as a member on the FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee.\n\nIn his statement, Goldberg emphasized that throughout his time at the FCC, he was being funded by public broadcasting companies.\n\n“FCC Chairman Carr’s attacks on public broadcasting, along with Congress’ recent rescission of funding for public media, accompanied by the strong urging of the president, makes it clear that either very little thought has gone into these attacks or, more likely, political interference has been combined with a complete disregard for the First Amendment,” Goldberg stated. “People with disabilities, along with every other American, will suffer due to the withdrawal of funding for public media.”\n\nGoldberg’s boycott follows a wave of federal actions against public broadcasting.\n\nOn July 18, 2025, _Congress approved Trump’s $9 billion rescissions bill that cut_ $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – the company that sponsors 1,500 PBS and NPR stations.",
  "title": "Honoree Declines FCC Accessibility Award",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:49:09.515Z"
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