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After Donald Trump’s Attacks On Media, A Reminder Of What The FCC Can – And Cannot – Do Before An Election
After Donald Trump's attacks on media, here is a reminder of what the FCC can and cannot do before an election, from Deadline’s Political Editor Ted Johnson.
That invited coverage of how this threat resembled that of Richard Nixon, who, on the White House tapes, talked about creating license-renewal problems for stations owned by The Washington Post, which then was out front in its reporting on the Watergate scandal. Andrew Jay Schwartzman, senior counselor at the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, recalled that there has been no license case involving programming since the 1970s — and it was over content that a broadcaster failed to carry. They argue that the Dominion Voting Systems litigation showed a “deliberate manipulation of news to boost ratings,” and that the behavior of the Murdochs and Fox executives was egregious enough to disqualify them from station ownership.
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