The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom [NEWSROOM MONITORS… REALLY?]

Op-Ed by Ajit Pai, Federal Communications Commissioner
February 10, 2014

Why is the agency studying 'perceived station bias' and asking about coverage choices? -- News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on the other hand, chooses to cover the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi more heavily than other networks. The American people, for their part, disagree about what they want to watch. ✧ But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.

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