After Trump threatens the press, senator asks FCC to affirm free speech

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

After Trump threatens the press, senator asks FCC to affirm free speech

Richard Blumenthal plans to ask each member of the Federal Communications Commission’s board to individually voice support for freedom of the press

Tom McCarthy
Sunday 15 October 2017 20.01 BST

Raising an alarm over Donald Trump’s repeated attacks last week on free speech protections, a Democratic senator is demanding that board members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) individually affirm their commitment to first amendment rights.

Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut planned to release a letter on Monday in which he calls on the five-member FCC board of commissioners to declare their personal support for free speech, the Associated Press reported.

Echoing Blumenthal’s concerns, one member of the commission obliquely criticized FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s failure to speak out against Trump’s attacks.

“I can’t really speak to what he is thinking,” Jessica Rosenworcel told CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday. “But I do think that history won’t be kind to silence.”

Following what he perceived as tendentious news coverage last week on NBC News, Trump suggested to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that free speech protections should come under review.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oct/15/after-trump-threatens-the-press-senator-asks-fcc-to-affirm-free-speech

[murielm99]

1. 45 will not know what tendentious means.

He probably thinks it is a sports injury.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Remember the Trump Family ,for at least three Generations ,

are steeped in White Nationalism. It's hard to break from Fascist Teachings if you circle your self with like persons.