In 2018, Senate Democrats tried to pressure the FCC to use the public interest standard to stop Sinclair Broadcasting Group from acquiring Tribune Media. In 2023, leftists sought to stop a routine renewal of a Fox owned broadcast station over complaints about 2020 election coverage. Do you agree that that was wrong? Yes, Senator, I agree. And those are cases, in fact, where rather than following SEC precedent, the agency broke from it and did so in a weaponized way. (00:26–00:40)
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Asserts that there was an attempt to block the renewal of a Fox station due to its 2020 election coverage.
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