Reuters reports:
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said he had asked the chairman of the FCC to open an inquiry into the February 24 incident at WHNT, a CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, in which civil rights footage from the 1960s was blacked out.
“The FCC now needs to find out if something analogous is going on here,” Copps said at a luncheon with media watchdog groups. “Was this an attempt to suppress information on the public airwaves, or was it really just a technical problem?”
Unfortunately, the chairman of the FCC is none other than Kevin Martin. I doubt that he’ll be able to stop obsessing over dirty words on TV broadcasts long enough to actually do his job.
