GOP Wants FCC Newsroom Study Gone for Good

Rep. Walden to introduce legislation and hold hearing

Even though the Federal Communications Commission chairman said the agency would stay out of the newsroom in a proposed study of the media marketplace, GOP leaders want to make sure it stays that way.

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the communications and technology subcommittee, vowed today to introduce legislation to kill the agency's so-called "Critical Information Needs" study. He's also planning to hold a hearing.

The study caused uproar among Walden and every GOP member of the commerce committee, as well as FCC GOP commissioner Ajit Pai, for the study's intent to probe journalists and other news staff in stations and newspapers about their news philosophy and the editorial decision-making process.

Finally, acknowledging the study crossed the line, chairman Tom Wheeler said the FCC would take out the offending survey questions.

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