Solon calls for hearing on TV news

If this doesn’t scare the piss out of you, you’re the bravest sumbitch in the country.

Rep. Joe Barton (news, bio, voting record) (R-Texas), chair of the House Commerce Committee, told a meeting of the TV engineering trade group MSTV in Washington that broadcast network news divisions “need to have safeguards to prevent reporters from infusing their opinions into news reports.”