Rafael wrote, “The number of decisions reported after 1976 ends dramatically, and only after 1982 the distortion reveals, when the FCC of the Reagan era began eliminating the content rules on broadcasting news.” Rafael wrote, “In a letter of advice to the NBC in 1993, a detection of 1982” was released in a letter to the NBC to launch a part of the NBC report on the NBC report in General Motors Trucks. “
GM investigated the incident and the NBC “confessed to the blast, apologized to GM, dismissed three producers who participated in the class, and eventually dismissed its news president,” he wrote. The FCC itself quietly sent the letter, “The first mention of the action appeared in the 1999 decision, which rejected a challenge to challenge the renewal of the NBC’s license.”
Investigations rare, penalties are rare
The rare consequences of news distortion also had other utility. “In most fines, letters of advice or censorship are issued, which were not too much in the renewal of the license, they were all successful,” Rafael wrote.
Rafael’s paper is practically the latest, despite the old one -fourth century old. A said, “From the time of Rafael’s study, it appears that the Commission has considered only allegations of news distortion in very few cases.” 2019 paper Through the film, television, and digital media professor Joel Tammar at Texas Christian University.
Timer received eight cases after 1999, which considered the allegations of distorting the news. Most of the allegations did not go away, and none of them could find out the distortion of the news.
There is no rule or rule against the FCC technically distorted news. “Instead, it has a news policy, in which it is” developed by decisions in decisions, which solves the challenges of broadcasters’ licenses, “Timer wrote.
He wrote that the FCC rejected the allegations of distorting news about broadcast networks, dismissing that Al Gore Florida would win in the 2000 presidential election. The FCC said that the wrong estimates “are not enough to launch such an investigation.”