Trump called the report “pure fiction.”“I believe in the First Amendment,” Pai said at an event organized by George Mason University's Mercatus Center. “The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment. With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? While the FCC could theoretically decide not to renew a particular station's license, it is extremely rare for the FCC to proactively revoke a license, much less on the grounds that its content is objectionable. For Pai to rule out revoking the license of an NBC station over its newscasts, then, is “stating the obvious,” said Andrew Schwartzman, a communications lawyer at Georgetown University.

Source: Washington Post October 17, 2017 17:33 UTC