Jessica Rosenworcel – Media & Communications Policy

March 6, 2025March 6, 2025 By Stuart N. Brotman

Government Should Have No Role in Policing News Distortions

In early February, CBS News complied with an FCC request to hand over the raw footage and transcript from an October 2024 interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The FCC has re-opened a closed file of a complaint that alleges CBS doctored the interview.

President Trump has already weighed in with his conclusion in a Truth Social post – CBS “defrauded the public,” he claims, and the network “should lose its license.”

September 26, 2024September 26, 2024 By Stuart N. Brotman

Focusing on ‘Net Vitality’ Can Help End ‘Net Neutrality’ War

The latest battle over “net neutrality” has returned to the federal courts and to the sharply divided perspectives regarding the extent to which the Federal Communications Commission should assert regulatory authority over how internet service providers offer broadband network service.

In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay that freezes the latest move by the FCC to re-impose a regime that requires ISPs to treat all services they carry equally, akin to the way that more traditional telephone companies have been regulated for nearly a century as nondiscriminatory common carriers. However, it has not yet rendered a decision on the case’s merits, which offers a real opportunity to look at the issue differently.