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The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy | FCC invokes 1960s-era policy to punish media after decades of minimal enforcement.
FCC invokes 1960s-era policy to punish media after decades of minimal enforcement.
"The number of reported decisions drops off dramatically after 1976, and there is only one finding of distortion after 1982, when the Reagan-era FCC began to remove content regulations on broadcast news," Raphael wrote. "Since the time of Raphael's study, it appears that the Commission has only considered allegations of news distortion in a very small number of cases," said a 2019 paper by Joel Timmer, a professor of film, television, and digital media at Texas Christian University. The FCC dismissed an allegation of news distortion over broadcast networks incorrectly projecting that Al Gore would win Florida in the 2000 presidential election, he wrote.
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