The Federal Communications Commission cannot and does not interfere in any way with free speech

Dear Editor,

I refer to a long letter from Kit Nascimento captioned “Broadcasters are held to a high standard of public responsibility” (08.04.19).

I totally disagree with much of what Mr Nascimento has written, since it is predicated on these words which appear at the very beginning of his tirade: “unlike the rest of the media, the broadcaster is bound by statutory obligations to serve the public interest in a defined way which would abridge the constitutional right to free speech which other media and published speech enjoy”.