Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Robert Corn-Revere
“The Federal Communications Commission is conducting an unseemly and unconstitutional spectacle, ostensibly to determine whether CBS violated its policy against ‘news distortion’ by editing a ’60 Minutes’ interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Its real purpose is to exercise raw partisan power. The FCC already knows CBS did not violate any rules and merely engaged in everyday journalism. … But judging the merits of the ‘news distortion’ allegation was never the point. The FCC staff already dismissed the complaint — filed by a partisan activist group — as fatally defective back in January. …But one of Brendan Carr’s first acts as the new FCC chair in Donald Trump’s administration was to reinstate the complaint and call for public comments. Asking members of the public to ‘vote’ on how they feel about a news organization’s editorial policies or whether they think the network violated FCC rules is both pointless and constitutionally infirm.” (03/17/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/fccs-show-trial-against-cbs-political-power-play