The FCC -- Actually Enforcing Its Own Rules?

[Commentary] There is a new sheriff at the Federal Communications Commission, and it looks like Tom Wheeler is here to protect the townspeople, not the outlaws.

As new chair, Wheeler explained in a statement, "Protecting Television Consumers by Protecting Competition," the FCC is required by law to assess its media ownership rules every four years to determine if they need to be modified to serve the public interest. If broadcast station owners held the same standards of fairness and duty to the public interest they did at the onset of broadcasting, we wouldn't need all these rules. But these times, they are a changing, and both profit and politics too often trumps the public interest.

[Wilson is Director of 'Broadcast Blues', Media Action Center]

[March 11]