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FCC Comment Deadline Leaves The View Without Ruling

The View has a deadline on Monday, not a ruling on Sunday. [1]

The paper's June 20 brief on the FCC file waiting for Monday comments said the docket had dates before it had a verdict. The FCC public notice is the source that matters on June 21: the agency sought comment on Disney's ABC petition about whether The View qualifies as a bona fide news interview program. [1]

Wiley's alert gives the operating calendar: comments are due June 22, and replies are due July 6. [2] Deadline supplies the entertainment-industry frame, where the equal-time question becomes a TV-politics story before the administrative record is complete. [3]

The memo documented one candidate X status, but it did not provide verified quote text. The article therefore keeps x_posts empty. A date-plausible URL without a verified quote is not enough for a frontmatter post.

That is the whole discipline of the story. X wants censorship or accountability now. MSM can describe the petition without stressing that the record is still open. The reader needs the docket order: petition, comments, reply comments, then possible agency action. [1][2]

On June 21, anyone announcing the FCC outcome is writing ahead of the file.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin

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