Cato: Reporting on Police Raids Serves Public Interest
“There is an obvious public interest in there being live media coverage of police street activity,” said Cato Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson in a blog post Tuesday about the FCC’s investigation of a radio station that reported on Immigration…
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and Customs Enforcement raids (see 2502050051). “Allowing the media to be scared away from reporting on police raids” takes the country “closer to a society where the media dare not report in real time on police raids at all, or even to one in which there might happen secret raids.” Media reporting “can expose bad practices by police, and it can also reassure by helping to establish that police practice was proper,” he said. The FCC’s investigation of the station “inevitably invites comparison with other speech-chilling steps taken under the new chairmanship of Brendan Car,” he added, pointing to the FCC’s investigation of CBS over news distortion (see 2502120041). “Vigilance is always in order when it comes to the FCC and speech rights, and perhaps more now than ever.”