It’s beyond reason that they’re fabricating falsified news about a person that is in court testifying that he paid for fabricated falsified news. The FCC needs to do its job and stop waiting for civil court to do it for them.
First, the regulation applies only to the broadcast medium, which means that the FCC has no power to enforce it against cable news networks, newspapers or newsletters (whether online or print), social media platforms, online-only streaming outlets or any other non-broadcast news platform.
But this is how they get away with it. People remember the accusation but not the retraction. CNN says they made the retraction today. It’s currently 4:37 pm EST. That means they made this retraction at some point in the day where very few people were watching. By design. They may not mention this story again in prime time, but they won’t mention the retraction either.
The requirement should be that the retraction must take as much airtime as the accusation during the same time block.
Lie about Cohen banging porn stars for an hour during prime time? I guess you lost an hour of prime time even if you just have to repeat, “That story wasn’t true. We were wrong” for an hour.
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