Meet the FCC Commissioner Who’s Blowing the Whistle on His Own Agency’s Planned Study of Newsrooms

By: American Decency Staff

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai is warning against his own agency’s planned study of America’s newsrooms, saying “government doesn’t have a place in the newsroom.”

Appearing on Greta Van Susteren’s TV show on Thursday, Pai explained that under the planned study the FCC would oversee an outside contractor as researchers gathered information. The study would seek to “figure out why they cover the stories that they do,” Pai said.

The FCC commissioner went public with the story because he says he was “concerned about what this implicated for our First Amendment values.”

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