A watchdog group has filed a complaint alleging that a Fox News affiliate station should not have its license renewed because it disseminated false information relating to the 2020 presidential election.
Though the FCC generally doesn’t act on complaints against over-the-air news stations and their editorial choices, the agency does have the legal power to comply with MAD’s request.
“The FCC is prohibited by law from engaging in censorship or infringing on First Amendment rights of the press,” . “It is, however, illegal for broadcasters to intentionally distort the news, and the FCC may act on complaints if there is documented evidence of such behavior from persons with direct personal knowledge.”, Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored and the president of the Media Freedom Foundation, said the FCC complaint by MAD was an “important act of civil engagement” through the use of “means established to hold media companies accountable for their misuse and abuse of the public airwaves.
Huff also noted that other news organizations have recently engaged in similarly problematic behavior.had a pretty notorious [Chris] Cuomo problem impacting the accuracy and slant of its reporting,” he said, referring toin reporting on and influencing coverage of his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo .
“The point is, watch what you wish for as other well-funded organizations may soon use the same process, in effect ideologically weaponizing it in our hyper-partisan times,” Huff said.“I support MAD’s efforts, and encourage others to become more engaged in our democratic institutions, become more media literate, and demand FCC action to create a more transparent and accurate free press system that functions in the public interest,” Huff said.
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