By Joe Otterson
FCC chairman Ajit Pai said that his agency will be looking into complaints made against Stephen Colbert for what some labeled a homophobic joke about President Donald Trump.
“I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get
complaints — and we’ve gotten a number of them — we are going to take
the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as it’s been
set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and we’ll take the
appropriate action,” Pai told Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
“Traditionally, the agency has to decide, if it does find a
violation, what the appropriate remedy should be,” he continued. “A
fine, of some sort, is typically what we do.” Pai was appointed to the
FCC in 2012 by President Barack Obama. He was elevated to the
chairmanship of the commission by Trump in January.
Pai’s comments on Colbert are surprising as “The Late Show” airs
outside the FCC’s long-established “safe harbor” time frame of 6 am to
10 pm in which the commission has the authority to police allegations of
indecent and obscene material on the airwaves. They would also seem to
clash with Pai’s vow to maintain a lighter regulatory environment for
media overall.
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Source: Variety
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