I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard.
[1] - https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/broadcasting_false_i...
I’ve been hearing a variation of this for at least 9 months. Can’t help but see Americans as frogs in the boiling water. Surely it can’t get hotter than this, can it?
You can't make this stuff up.
[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-defends...
https://progressive.org/op-eds/weve-always-known-fox-news-is...
I guess Fox is next then. After all, the FCC is definitely not going to be found anything less than even handed.
> The FCC prohibits broadcasting false information about a crime or a catastrophe if the broadcaster knows the information is false and will cause substantial “public harm” if aired.
> FCC rules specifically say that the “public harm must begin immediately, and cause direct and actual damage to property or to the health or safety of the general public, or diversion of law enforcement or other public health and safety authorities from their duties.”
> Broadcasters may air disclaimers that clearly characterize programming as fiction to avoid violating FCC rules about public harm.
It’s very obvious that Kimmel didn’t cause, and couldn’t have caused, any public harm.
How can it not be an overreach ?
Regulating “false information?”
There was no false information and the substance of the clip is just video of a person responding to a question.
How long until Fallon and Myers after the president all but threatened them? Guess we’ll find out how high this water will go.
But if the FCC actually strong armed the media due to political reasons, would it stand up in the courts? Disney has more than enough money to fight it. One possibility is that they're using this as an opportunity to cut the show, which maybe they were leaning towards anyway. It effectively redirects blame to the FCC instead of the company that actually made the decision.