Fowler Calls for End of News Distortion Policy in 'WSJ'
The FCC’s news distortion rule “has become a loaded gun that allows the FCC to ‘regulate by raised eyebrow,’” wrote former FCC Chairman Mark Fowler in a letter published Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal. He pointed out that a…
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number of Republicans who served at the FCC joined with Democrats, including former Chairman Tom Wheeler, in a recent petition (see 2511130052) calling on the agency to revoke the policy. “Two-thirds of the signatories are red-blooded Republicans who have always believed the government has no business policing the media for bias or balance,” wrote Fowler, who chaired the commission under former President Ronald Reagan. He said Carr has “brandished” the news distortion policy “to stifle content he deems unfair” to President Donald Trump. “The press that uses air and electrons must be as free of Washington censors as the press that uses paper and ink.”