Even to U.S. citizens long inured to political stinks, the Cox Committee's investigation of the Federal Communications Commission was becoming slightly nauseous last week. When Congress set up the committee to review the functions of FCC, backbiting Gene ("Goober") Cox-then (and still) charged by FCC with accepting an illegal fee from a Georgia broadcasting stationwangled himself the chairmanship. At the first public hearing Chairman Cox promised "an impartial and wholly constructive" investigation.
Last week's public hearings in Manhattan were fair samples of Committee tactics. Cox & Co. professed to be mightily upset by FCC's recent pressure on foreign-language broadcasting stations. They...