MMTC, Others Disagree With Broadcasters in EEO Proceeding
Broadcaster arguments that calls for reformed EEO rules aren't relevant to the FCC proceeding on doing away with midterm EEO reports (see 1805160042) should be disregarded, said Common Cause, the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, National Association of Black…
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Owned Broadcasters, National Urban League, Public Knowledge, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Women in Cable Telecommunications and others. Though much of the NPRM is focused on midterm EEO reports, it requests comment on the FCC’s “track record” on enforcement, they said, posted Wednesday in docket 18-23. The groups’ request for action against “cronyism” has been “fully briefed since 2004 and is ripe,” they said. The groups also disagreed with broadcaster contentions that requests for stronger EEO enforcement (see 1805010075) are unconstitutional and that word-of-mouth recruitment is discriminatory: “Outreach that is not broad can be conducted in a discriminatory way.”