The Federal Communications Commission’s only Democrat commissioner said the time has come for the regulatory agency to clearly define what it means for a broadcaster to serve in the “public interest.”
Anna Gomez, in remarks Thursday at the University of Mississippi’s Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and Innovation, said that local TV and radio stations are required to meet certain public interest standards, despite the fact that the agency has never defined what that means.
“I have called for the commission to initiate a rulemaking to define what it means by ‘the public interest,'” Gomez said, according to The Desk. “Otherwise, we’re just regulating against what we don’t like, and that is a direct violation of the First Amendment.”
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