This feels like an overreach, maybe. The FCC does have the strange task of regulating "false information" [1], but in practice I don't think that gets invoked very often (I'm sure morning DJs would be fired en masse if they were actually held to the standard of proven, objective truth!)

I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard.

[1] - https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/broadcasting_false_i...

> I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard.

I’ve been hearing a variation of this for at least 9 months. Can’t help but see Americans as frogs in the boiling water. Surely it can’t get hotter than this, can it?

The chair of the FCC went live on Fox News, of all channels, to argue that ABC is alienating his audience. [1]

You can't make this stuff up.

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-defends...

It’s absolutely an overreach and there’s no chance this is the high water mark. Things are going to get much, much worse before there’s any hope of things calming down.

> The FCC does have the strange task of regulating "false information"

https://progressive.org/op-eds/weve-always-known-fox-news-is...

I guess Fox is next then. After all, the FCC is definitely not going to be found anything less than even handed.

> feels like an overreach, maybe

How can it not be an overreach ?

> I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard.

How long until Fallon and Myers after the president all but threatened them? Guess we’ll find out how high this water will go.

“Maybe?”

Regulating “false information?”

There was no false information and the substance of the clip is just video of a person responding to a question.

It feels like an overreach because it is.

that "maybe" could power a medium sized city