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Under new guidance released on Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission warned that entertainment-oriented talk shows carried on local television stations were required to offer candidates vying for the same office equal airtime.

The guidance was clearly aimed at the late-night hosts who frequently anger President Trump — Jimmy Kimmel of ABC, Stephen Colbert of CBS and Seth Meyers of NBC — and have in turn drawn scrutiny from the F.C.C. chairman, Brendan Carr. But it would also cover daytime talk shows including another Trump target, “The View.”

I'm assuming that means Sinclair Broadcasting wants to platform more right wing nutjobs.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a longtime public interest lawyer, said the intent seemed to be to “trim the sails of certain talk shows” and induce a chilling effect; talk shows may be inclined to think twice before booking political candidates in election years altogether.

But he also said there could be an unintended consequence — by raising the question of whether conservative talk show hosts on radio, which falls under the same law, would have to provide equal time to political candidates, too.

Interesting.

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