Well, it's not a threat, that's a penalty that is in the Communications Act, and if you don't... trust in the national mainstream media is at an absolute low... the agenda that I'm trying to run at the FCC is to empower those actual local television stations to serve the public interest.
John Thornton transformed local journalism by founding The Texas Tribune and the American Journalism Project, pioneering sustainable models for digital newsrooms against a backdrop of decline in legacy media.