The FCC’s Public Interest in Your Personnel Files
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses television stations. Does that make it Disney’s human resources department? The agency seems to think so, invoking a “public interest” mandate to investigate the company’s diversity policies—a mandate whose meaning seems to change with whoever holds power.
Under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, the FCC has initiated early license-renewal proceedings against eight television stations that American Broadcasting Cos. Inc. (ABC), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co., owns and operates. ABC sued to…
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