l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 The Federal Communication Commission announced it will no longer ask editors
and reporters about their newsroom practices in a controversial
questionnaire that critics ripped as invasive and having troublesome
implications.
Questions in the document for editors and reporters will be “removed
entirely” from the questionnaire, FCC spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said in a
statement released Friday.
Gilson added that ““Any suggestion that the FCC intends to regulate the
speech of news media or plans to put monitors in America's newsrooms is
false.”
The questionnaire, which is being led by Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of
noted Fairness Doctrine proponent Rep. Jim Clyburn, spooked freedom of
speech advocates.
“To be clear, media owners and journalists will no longer be asked to
participate in the Columbia, S.C. pilot study. The pilot will not be
undertaken until a new study design is final. Any subsequent market studies
conducted by the FCC, if determined necessary, will not seek participation
from or include questions for media owners, news directors or reporters,”
Gilson said. |
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