Tell the FCC Chair: Talk Radio is NOT Bonafide News!

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Tuesday June 18, 2013 · 9:40 AM PDT

2013/06/18 · 09:40

Today, the US Senate is expected to confirm Tom Wheeler as chair of the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting the public interest in all things media, particularly over our public airwaves.
One of the first questions Wheeler's FCC will have to (reluctantly?) decide: Is Talk Radio the same as "bonafide news"?
If the FCC redefines editorial opinion as "news," it will sound the death knell for truth in journalism as we know it. A Pew study revealed that already, nearly a quarter of the population believes that talk radio is in fact "news." That's a scary statistic – and one we can't afford to let grow, or Rush Limbaugh will be equated with Walter Cronkite.
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