Aug 9, 2023: Washington Post’s Paul Farhi reported on petition

On August 9, 2023, the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi published an article on the MAD petition.

It’s rare for the FCC to require hearings for license challenges, as MAD is requesting, and rarer still to get hearings for objections involving owner character issues, Schwartzman said. “The short answer is it almost never happens” And “it’s a torturous process” in any case, he added.

But this case is exceptional. “Never in the history of the FCC have they been confronted with an applicant who was found to have repeatedly presented false news by a judge,” former Fox executive Preston Padden told the Post. “If [the FCC’s] character standard means anything, it means you can’t be guilty of presenting false news.”

The Washington Post article is here.