Saturday, March 18, 2017

Senate Democrats Press Trump’s FCC Boss Over ‘Enemy of the American People’ Testimony

It should be a simple question: Do you agree with President Trump's claim that US news organizations are "the enemy of the American people"? Yes or no? Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who runs the sole agency charged with public interest oversight of the US media airwaves, repeatedly refused to answer that question last week during a key Senate hearing. Pai's evasion clearly annoyed several Senate lawmakers. Now, a group of influential Democratic senators are formally requesting that Pai clarify his stance on Trump's incendiary assertion, along with a host of other free speech matters. ...
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/senate-democrats-press-trumps-fcc-boss-over-enemy-of-the-people-testimony

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