联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席布伦丹·卡尔周四表示，广播网络在播出民调前应尽到“应有的审慎义务”，以防播出可能被捏造的民调，但他并未指出任何引发担忧的具体节目。
Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said on Thursday that broadcast networks should use "due diligence" before airing polls that could have been fabricated but he did not identify any specific broadcasts that raised concerns.
本月初，卡尔曾警告广播公司，若在11月3日中期选举前播出“完全捏造的民调和压制性民调”，可能违反其监管义务。
Earlier this month, Carr warned broadcasters they could violate their regulatory obligations by airing "entirely fake polls and suppression polls" ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
总统唐纳德·特朗普的民调支持率已跌至历史最低，其所属共和党在中期选举前的民调中落后，他一直施压卡尔严厉打击美国广播公司和记者。民主党籍FCC委员安娜·戈麦斯表示，试图对民调产生怀疑，是政府试图让电视新闻机构自我审查的举动。
President Donald Trump, whose poll ratings have slid to their lowest ever and whose Republican Party is trailing in polls ahead of the midterm elections, has pressured Carr to crack down on US broadcasters and journalists. Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez said the drive to cast doubt on polls was an attempt by the administration to get TV news operations to censor themselves.
周四，卡尔表示，他并非寻求惩罚播出对任何特定政客不利的民调结果的广播公司，但引用了近期案例，包括韦奇伍德民调公司承认伪造调查。
On Thursday, Carr said he was not seeking to punish broadcasters for airing poll results that are negative for any specific politician, but cited recent cases including that of Wedgewood Polling, which admitted it had faked surveys.
卡尔说：“鉴于完全捏造的民调接连出现，我们认为广播公司保持审慎很重要。”他表示，并非寻求妨碍“对现有民调的善意报道”。卡尔称，他不知晓广播公司播出捏造民调的任何具体事例。他说，如果民众担心电台播出了捏造的民调，应站出来反映。
"Given this rash of entirely fake polls, we think it's important that broadcasters are diligent," Carr said. He said he was not seeking to impinge on "good faith reporting on existing polls." Carr said he was unaware of any specific instances of broadcasters airing fake polls. He said people should come forward if they had concerns that stations had aired fabricated polls.
特朗普多次拒绝接受显示民主党在中期国会选举中大幅领先共和党的民调和调查。总统曾呼吁卡尔惩罚包括NBC记者克里斯滕·韦尔克在内的记者，但卡尔并未采取行动。
Trump has repeatedly rejected polls and surveys showing Democrats are significantly ahead of Republicans in the midterm congressional elections. The president has called on Carr to punish journalists, including NBC's Kristen Welker, but Carr has not done so.
特朗普上周说：“我认为这是假民调。民调有意义，但很多民调是被操纵的。”
"I think it's fake polls. Polls mean something but a lot of the polls are rigged," Trump said last week.
戈麦斯是三人委员会中唯一的民主党人，他说，根据该机构关于新闻歪曲或骗局的规则，广播公司不得因播出民调新闻而受到惩罚。戈麦斯暗示，这是一种“吓唬电视台自我审查”的手段。卡四月份下令对迪士尼（DIS.N）旗下全部八家自有ABC电视台进行前所未有的提前执照审查。法院挑战仍在等待审理，卡周四再次表示，他尚未就是否寻求吊销执照做出任何决定。
Gomez, the sole Democrat on the three-member commission, said broadcasters cannot be punished for airing news about polls under the agency's rules governing news distortion or hoaxes. Gomez suggested it was a "way to spook stations into self-censoring." Carr in April ordered an unprecedented early license review for all eight of Disney's (DIS.N) company-owned ABC TV stations. A court challenge is pending and Carr said again Thursday he had made no decisions on whether to seek to revoke the licenses.