Media Action Center Campaign Targets Alex Jones For Sandy Hook 'Hoax'

Alex Jones (Belltreephography/Shutterstock)

THE MEDIA ACTION CENTER, which successfully forced ENTERCOM to forfeit its license to Top 40 KDND SACRAMENTO,(NET NEWS, 2/3/17) has launched a national letter-writing campaign to inform the FCC of numerous violations of the agency's hoax rule by notorious radio host ALEX JONES. 

JONES is currently being sued for defamation in CONNECTICUT and TEXAS by at least eight families who have lost their children in the SANDY HOOK school shooting, which JONES insisted on his radio show never happened.  

Such broadcasts are in violation of the FCC hoax rule: "The station may be in violation if: (1) the licensee knows this information is false; (2) it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm; and (3) broadcast of the information does in fact directly cause substantial public harm."  

In its campaign, MAC is asking for the FCC to require the ALEX JONES program be correctly labeled as laid out in FCC guidelines: “If a station airs a disclaimer before the broadcast that clearly characterizes the program as fiction … the program is presumed not to pose foreseeable public harm.” 

Commented MAC Director SUE WILSON, "This is not about taking JONES off the air or interfering with his First Amendment rights. This is about licensees' responsibility to the public interest. Individuals in JONES' markets from coast to coast are asking that stations air the appropriate disclaimer, and that the FCC simply enforce its own rule to protect the public from harmful hoaxes."

The campaign can be found at www.mediaactioncenter.net .

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