The View still has a calendar, not a ruling. The useful fact on June 19 is procedural: the FCC has asked for a record, and the next public deadline is Monday.

Wiley's account says the FCC is seeking comment on whether ABC's The View qualifies as a bona fide news interview program for Section 315 purposes, with comments due June 22 and replies due July 6. [1] Those dates are the operating record. They are not a finding that the show is exempt, punishable, protected, or disqualified.

That matters because the discourse wants to skip the file. X turns the docket into a speech fight or a partisan-television fight. The administrative state works more slowly and more boringly: parties file, opponents reply, staff and commissioners read the record, and an order may follow.

Monday is therefore the next receipt. If critics have evidence about format, guest selection, candidate treatment, or newsworthiness, it belongs in the comments. If defenders have evidence of bona fide news-interview practice, it belongs there too. Until the record changes, anyone announcing the outcome is writing ahead of the docket.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin