5 Legal Reforms To Consider as Government Officials Lean on Critics

Reason cited CEI’s expert in new study on broadcasting regulation

Also making that point is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Brian A. Rankin in a new study. He warns that the Trump administration is pushing for expanded authority over content, allegedly to “force television and radio station broadcast licensees to create more balanced coverage of controversial matters.” He says that, as in the past, FCC regulatory power “is being used as a weapon to inhibit speech that is critical of those in power or expresses contrary views.” He urges the FCC to “discard the concept of scarcity, embrace the reality that freedom rather than the regulation of news and information serves the public interest” and abandon efforts to regulate broadcast news coverage.

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