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NEW DEAL JITTERY OVER INCREASING PRESS ATTACKS ON FCC
Coming Just ahead of what promises to be one of the most bitter political campaigns in our history, some concern is being expressed in high New Deal circles at the backfire the newspapers of the country are apparently starting against the Federal Communi¬ cations Commission and its Chairman, James L. Fly. This was in¬ spired by the evident attempt of the FCC to discriminate against newspaper owned stations, the press inquiry allegedly having been started by President Roosevelt himself with Mr. Fly enthusiastica, iiy hopping on the band-wagon.
However, if now the Congressional Investigation of the FCC blows up, or if there is any further gagging of witnesses by the White House or the probe is again hampered in any way, it is believed the press of the country, still smarting from the sting of the Fee’s inquiry into newspaper-owned stations, will open up on the Commission and the Administration in earnest.
As it is, the Increasing number of editorial attacks on the FCC are far from reassuring to the political leaders. No less than three editorials appeared in the Congre ssional Record in a single day from widely separated parts of the country. This, of course, brings the criticism of the FCC to the direct attention of the members of the House and Senate serving to arouse the Republi¬ cans and to put the New Deal Democrats, most of whom are up for election, on the defensive.
An editorial from the Pittsburgh press was Inserted in the Record by Representative Louis E. Graham ( R) , of Pennsylvania, captioned ’’Fly in the Ointment”, and read;
’’James L. Fly is Cliairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As such, he is one of seven members.
"He is not the whole Commission. He is not legally a dictator over the radio industry, or any other type of communica¬ tions.
"But there is a good deal of evidence to indicate that he is trying to be.
"The act of Congress which created the Federal Communica¬ tions Commission sets up as its purpose the regulation of the com¬ munications systems, especially radio, for the common good,
"It was not the purpose of the lew to create a bureaucrat¬ ic dictatorship which would run the radio industry, or any other facility in the communications field.
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