法庭上的律师说，ABC面临着“寒蝉效应”。照片：Mario Anzuoni/路透社律师告诉ABC法官，由于美国监管机构寻求审查网络的地方电视台许可证，迪斯尼律师指责特朗普政府“公然违反美国宪法”和审查周二在联邦通信委员会对媒体巨头的八个地方电视台许可证的早期审查的第一次法庭听证会上。
Lawyers in court said ABC faces a ‘chilling effect’. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant violations of the US constitution” and censorship on Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of the media giant’s eight local television station licenses.
地区法官洛伦？阿里汗（Loren AliKhan）似乎对政府的论点不以为然，政府辩称，迫使迪士尼提前几年申请更新当地电视台执照的命令与对母公司迪士尼招聘行为的调查有关。
District judge Loren AliKhan seemed unswayed by government arguments that the order to force Disney’s to apply years early to renew local television station licenses was tied to an investigation into parent company Disney’s hiring practices.
美国广播公司（ABC）、迪士尼（Disney）及其电视台集团于8月对FCC提起诉讼，寻求阻止美国媒体监管机构采取任何进一步措施，就该命令惩罚或向该网络施压。
ABC, Disney, and its station group filed suit against the FCC in August seeking to block the US media regulator from taking any further steps to punish or pressure the network in connection to the order.
美国广播公司在诉讼中辩称，联邦通信委员会的行动--是在唐纳德·特朗普任命的主席布伦丹·卡尔的要求下采取的--实际上是为了冷却该网络的演讲，总统和卡尔认为该演讲倾向于反对政府。
In its lawsuit, ABC argued that the FCC’s actions – taken at the behest of Donald Trump-appointed chair Brendan Carr – were actually intended to chill the network’s speech, which the president and Carr have argued is tilted against the administration.
在法律文件和周二的听证会上，该电视网引用了总统和联邦通信委员会主席过去的威胁，这些威胁曾多次危及电视网络（包括ABC）的许可证，以供编辑。
In legal filings and during Tuesday’s hearing, the network cited past threats by the president and the FCC chairman that jeopardized the licenses of television networks, including ABC on several occasions, for editorial purposes.
“这些公然违反了美国宪法，”代表美国广播公司辩护的著名审判律师贝丝·威尔金森在大约两个小时的听证会上告诉法官。
“These are blatant violations of the US constitution,” the prominent trial lawyer Beth Wilkinson, arguing on behalf of ABC, told the judge during the approximately two-hour-long hearing.
她表示，美国广播公司面临着一种“寒蝉效应”，这种效应已经影响并将继续影响其编辑决策，因为该网络避开了可能引发特朗普政府和卡尔进一步愤怒的政治预订和任何其他节目决定。她说：“这种寒蝉效应一直在发生，而且每天都会发生。”这对该网络及其为美国人民广播独立新闻的能力造成了“无法弥补的伤害”。
She said ABC faces a “chilling effect” that has impacted – and will continue to impact – its editorial decision-making, as the network steers clear of political bookings and any other programming decisions that could spark further ire from the Trump administration and Carr. “That chilling effect has been happening and will happen every day,” she said, causing “irreparable harm” to the network and its ability to broadcast independent news for the benefit of the American people.
美国广播公司表示，已停止在日间脱口秀节目《观点》中预订政客，并选择在其流媒体平台上播放特朗普7月份的演讲，以免激怒总统。威尔金森说：“我们的编辑决定现在正在受到影响。”他指出了如何报道下个月关键中期选举的决定的重要性。“我们正在关注我们所做的一切……由于担心报复，我们已经改变了我们的行为。”
ABC has said it has stopped booking politicians on the daytime talkshow The View and chose to air a July speech by Trump on its streaming platform so as not to antagonize the president. “Our editorial decisions are being affected right now,” Wilkinson said, noting the significance of decisions about how to cover next month’s pivotal midterm elections. “We are watching everything we do … We have already altered our conduct because of the fear of retaliation.”
她还指出，美国广播公司最近选择在YouTube而不是电视上播出吉米·金梅尔对德克萨斯州美国参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科的采访，“因为联邦通信委员会对YouTube没有控制权”。
She also noted that ABC recently chose to air a Jimmy Kimmel-conducted interview with Texas US Senate candidate James Talarico on YouTube, rather than television, “because the FCC has no control over YouTube”.
联邦通信委员会被告的代表迪米塔尔·P·格奥尔基耶夫（Dimitar P Georgiev）辩称，“没有理由相信提前续签令促使原告编辑决定发生变化”。他还辩称，美国哥伦比亚特区地方法院不是此案的适当管辖区，并表示ABC可以就任何不利决定向美国哥伦比亚特区上诉法院提出上诉。
Dimitar P Georgiev, representing the FCC defendants, argued that “there is no reason to believe the early renewal order has prompted changes to the plaintiffs’ editorial decisions”. He also argued that US district court for the District of Columbia is not the proper jurisdiction for the case, saying that ABC could instead appeal any adverse decision to the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia.
美国广播公司正在寻求法官做出决定，禁止联邦通信委员会对该网络的许可证采取任何进一步行动。威尔金森说：“我们要求停止纯粹的报复，这让我们陷入了一个我们永远不应该陷入的过程。”
ABC is seeking a decision from the judge to enjoin the FCC from taking any further actions against the network’s licenses. “We are asking to stop pure retaliation, putting us in a process that we should never have to be in,” Wilkinson said.
乔治亚耶夫在威尔金森所谓的“致命承认”中表示，许可证续签过程“与许可证无关”，而是加快委员会审查ABC是否可能违反联邦平等机会法规的“工具”。该律师还表示，如果ABC能够满足其文件要求，FCC可以选择提前结束许可审查程序。
In what Wilkinson called a “fatal admission”, Georgiev said the license renewal process “is not about the licenses”, but is instead a “tool” to expedite the commission’s review of ABC for potential violations of federal equal opportunities regulations. The lawyer also said the FCC could choose to end the license review process early if ABC is able to satisfy its document requests.
考虑到联邦通信委员会去年开始对迪士尼进行就业实践调查，并且从那时起一直要求提供文件，法官问道：“为什么你直到夏天才确定他们的回应严重不足？”她还质疑为什么委员会要求该公司同时提交所有八个车站的续订申请。
Considering that the FCC opened its employment practice investigation into Disney last year, with requests for documents ongoing since then, the judge asked: “Why is it only in the summer that you determined that their responses were woefully inadequate?”She also questioned why the commission required the company to submit renewal applications for all eight of its stations simultaneously.
她还指出了卡尔过去对该网络许可证的评论，包括7月份的一句话，当时他表示，美国广播公司决定不在其线性频道上播放总统演讲，这可能会成为许可证调查的一个因素。
And she noted past comments by Carr about the network’s licenses, including a remark in July, when he had said ABC’s decision not to carry the president’s speech that month on its linear channel could factor into the license investigation.
“所有评论都让我震惊，这只是一场发现纠纷，是什么让事情如此不同，以至于你需要呼吁提前更新许可证？”阿利汗法官询问了联邦通信委员会的律师，她要求他们提供一份委员会本可以采取的其他一些执法行动清单，而不提前调用该网络的许可证。
“It strikes me with all the comments that this was merely over a discovery dispute, what made this so different that you needed to call for an early license renewal?”Judge AliKhan asked lawyers for the FCC, whom she asked for a list of some of the other enforcement actions the commission could have taken short of calling up the network’s licenses early.
她指出，考虑到多样性、公平和包容性（DEI）调查是由该委员会的执行局处理的，而许可令是由媒体局制定的，FCC的论点中有“一些透明度”。
And she noted that there was “some daylight” in the FCC’s arguments, considering that the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) inquiry was handled by the commission’s enforcement bureau, while the license order was made by the media bureau.
法官在没有发布命令的情况下结束了听证会，称她将“对此事进行调解”。
The judge ended the hearing without issuing an order, saying she would take the matter “under advisement”.