Judges Consider Effort To Force FCC Action On News Distortion Policy

After a group of former FCC chairs and commissioners petitioned the agency to repeal its news distortion policy last November, the current chairman Brendan Carr never acted on it.

Last month, they asked an appellate court to compel him to do so.

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel gave the FCC 30 days to respond to that effort, known in legalese as a writ of mandamus.

The former chairs and commissioners, joined with the Radio and Television Digital News Association, contend that Carr has used the news distortion policy “as a weapon to control news content and suppress viewpoints the government disfavors.”

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