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Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino - A couple of things:
1) The Equal Opportunity rule exempts news interviews.
2) For decades, the FCC said late night interviews fall under this exemption.
3) The FCC changed its interpretation of the rule last month, removing the exemption for late night and day time interviews but not for talk radio.
4) The FCC is allegedly probing a previous Talarico interview on "The View" for a violation of this new FCC policy.
5) Broadcasters do not need to proactively offer the equal opportunity to opposing candidates. It's incumbent upon those candidates to request the opportunity, and they must do so within 7 days.
6) Conservatives have long opposed the Equal Opportunity Rule, much as they have opposed other broadcast content regulations. For example, the Reagan administration previously ended the Fairness Doctrine, arguing it discouraged free speech and was no longer necessary due to media expansion.
7) These content regulations are anachronistic and easily weaponized to target political opponents. (See JFK's use of the Fairness Doctrine to silence right-wing radio preachers.) The Trump administration sees late night talk shows as adversarial to the administration.
8) If broadcaster challenged these broadcast content regulations as a violation of the First Amendment, I think there is a good chance modern courts would agree, despite past precedent. The First Amendment has become more robust, and the rules are less justifiable in our current multimedia environment.
https://x.com/NicoPerrino/status/2024124650796597439

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