Brendan Carr insists he’s not trying to pressure Disney into firing Jimmy Kimmel or otherwise meddle in ABC’s editorial decisions. As the F.C.C. chairman explained on CNBC this past week, around the time Disney grudgingly filed to renew its broadcast licenses years before they were set to expire, the issue was whether ABC’s stations were operating in the public interest. In Carr’s view, discriminatory D.E.I. policies cannot meet that standard. “Ultimately,” Carr said, “if the facts show that Disney was discriminating against people based on race or gender, that could be a real problem with respect to their ability to continue to hold a license.”