Diversity Group Calls for EEO Reform Should Be Ignored, Broadcasters Say
The FCC proposal to eliminate mid-term equal employment opportunity reports should be implemented, and calls for more sweeping changes to EEO policy should be ignored as outside the scope of the current proceeding, said NAB and nearly every state broadcast…
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association in replies in docket 18-23 (see 1805010075). No commenters opposed the FCC media modernization plan, the broadcasters said. Deleting the requirement would “further the Commission’s goal in the Media Regulation Modernization Initiative to reduce unnecessary administrative obligations,” NAB said. A jointly filed call for changes to EEO policy from diversity groups including the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition addresses “a wholly different issue” that isn’t part of the mid-term EEO NPRM, NAB said. The changes sought would raise constitutional problems and don’t really involve FCC media modernization proposal, the broadcasters said. Previous attempts to implement the policies called for by the diversity groups haven’t survived judicial scrutiny, the state broadcast associations said. The diversity groups’ proposals aren't related to the NPRM and would threaten “the judicial viability of the Commission’s EEO Rule” if enacted, the state associations said.