The FCC "is conducting an unseemly & unconstitutional spectacle, ostensibly to determine whether CBS violated its policy against 'news distortion' by editing" an interview w/Harris, writes Robert Corn-Revere @reason.com "Its real purpose is to exercise raw partisan power" reason.com/2025/03/14/t...
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"If the cockamamie theory underlying this FCC 'investigation' had any merit, every newsroom in America would be a crime scene"
@enbrown.bsky.social the case might be so weak as to not be worth pursuing, but it's not right to completely dismiss it so completely.
Harris's presentation was part of the information that viewers want to see from an interview segment. That the editing was to "make sense of and condense" is is exactly the part of this issue that many people take exception with.
One could say that the editing to make sense of her words hid from the public that Harris didn't make sense, and that's not something journalism should so easily waive away.
