For Richard Wiley, it’s a Dr. Frankenstein scenario.

As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Wiley in 1975 led the agency in creating a ban on companies owning a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same market. Now, as counsel to the Newspaper Association of America, the founding partner of Washington’s Wiley Rein is a leader in a decadelong fight to kill it.

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