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NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News executive said Saturday the network did not pay Kyle Rittenhouse's family for any special access during Rittenhouse's murder trial or after his acquittal, after it was announced that he would speak to Tucker Carlson for an interview to air on Monday. The comment came after Rittenhouse's trial attorney, Mark Richards, said that a Fox documentary crew was embedded with Rittenhouse's team against his wishes. Richards told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn't think the filming was appropriate and that he had tossed the crew out of meetings several times. “It was...

NEW YORK On a day when newspapers around the country reported on some of the more than 3,000 local house parties Sunday night promoting the new documentary "Outfoxed," activists from MoveOn.org, Common Cause and other groups in New York announced a drive to strip the Fox News Channel of its "fair and balanced" slogan -- and then marched on the Fox studios in midtown Manhattan. The group of about 50 organizers and lawyers attempted to present Fox officials with a petition, legal papers, and a copy of the DVD of "Outfoxed," with little apparent success. Some handed out copies of...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - A top federal regulator on Wednesday defended a controversial vote to ease ownership limits on media companies, saying he was forced to take action in the wake of a string of court defeats. Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, told a panel of mostly critical U.S. senators that the old regulations could not withstand legal scrutiny. The new rules stood a better chance of being upheld, he said. "I believe we did our job, and indeed that we did it well," Powell asserted at a hearing sponsored by the Senate Commerce Committee. All five FCC...