premetheus37 asked: I’m stepping on the toes of (and will be paraphrasing) George Carlin when I ask this, but I’ve yet to recieve an actual answer.
How is it that “the FCC, an unappointed body, not elected, decided all on it’s own that television and radio were the only two parts of American life not governed by the free speech provision of the first amendment to the Constitution?”
I just don’t understand what made the regulation of public television and radio legal. The first amendment says “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.” So, how is it that the Federal Communications Commission can regulate what people say or do on public television and radio?
I ask purely in the interest of intellectual enlightenment on my own part, and not to try to start an argument. I really would like to know.
~Premetheus
