Opinion | Broadcasters don’t need the FCC to tell them how to be patriotic

As America counts down to its 250th birthday, broadcasters find themselves caught between a regulatory rock and a patriotic hard place. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s new Pledge America Campaign urges stations to air pro-America programming, play the national anthem each morning, and showcase the music of Sousa, Copland and Gershwin. It is framed as voluntary. But when the same chairman is simultaneously investigating “The View” and rewriting equal-time guidance that sent CBS lawyers scrambling over a Colbert interview, the word “voluntary” carries a certain weight.

Broadcasters deserve a better path forward — one that honors the occasion without genuflecting to regulatory pressure. And it starts with 45 words. 

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