A group of former Federal Communications Commission
officials sent a letter to the agency urging it to convene about the word
Redskins.
According to indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com, a group of
26 activists, leaders, and former commissioners signed the letter asking the
FCC commissioner host the forum to decide if broadcasters should voluntarily
regulate the on-air use of the team’s name.
“If you can’t look at somebody and use a certain name
because it is an insult, then that is the moment of awareness that it is time
for the name to be changed,” said Reed Hundt, a former FCC commissioner, to the
Washington Post.
The letter calls for broadcasters to voluntarily stop using
the offensive name, and told Commissioner Mignon Clyburn the FCC has
“unquestioned authority” to host the forum.
The letter cites journalists who have condemned the name,
like Peter King of Sports Illustrated and Mike Wise of The Washington Post, and
President Obama, who said that if he were Dan Snyder, the owner of the team, he
would “think seriously” about changing it.
Hundt, a commissioner during the Clinton Administration,
said that the group was specifically calling on broadcasters, not print or
digital medium reporters, to participate in the forum because the commission
primarily regulates radio and television.
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