The Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced this week that the FCC is investigating San Francisco-based radio station KCBS over its coverage of the administration's mass deportation raids in San Jose, prompting First Amendment experts to express concerns about authoritarian-style censorship.
“This effort to control media content – a foundational trait of dictatorships – contains the hallmarks of government censorship,” Joseph Russomanno, professor emeritus at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, told The Independent.
