It’s hard to understand the FTC being involved in this at all.
But most troubling (and I didn’t see it listed here) is the “hot story” proposal. It would allow the first source to break a story a monopoly on that story for a certain length of time.
This means that if the administration wanted to control a bad story, they could simply leak it to a complicit agency and no one else could even report on that story.
Talk about a sly way to get total control!
Hey, FTC! JUST WHAT PART OF “CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW...” DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?.....................