The Republican-led FCC’s efforts to relax a series of restrictions on ownership of TV stations has been sidelined by a federal appeals court. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rule…
’s efforts to relax a series of restrictions on ownership of TV stations has been sidelined by a federal appeals court.
“Although it did ostensibly comply with our prior requirement to consider this issue on remand, its analysis is so insubstantial that we cannot say it provides a reliable foundation for the Commission’s conclusions,” the judges wrote in their decision. “The FCC must now do the job it’s long refused to do: properly weigh all of the evidence showing the impact of media consolidation on local communities,” said Jessica J. Gonzalez, VP Strategy and senior counsel at Free Press, a public interest group that was among the plaintiffs challenging the FCC’s actions. “It’s time we had real data on the agency’s decades-long neglect of ownership diversity, and then policies designed to fix that problem for real.
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