Comments on: Cover-Up: FCC Buried Evidence to Protect Friends in Big Media http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: What is a comment worth? « Civil Defense - a weblog by Joshua Breitbart http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-314 What is a comment worth? « Civil Defense - a weblog by Joshua Breitbart Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:37:40 +0000 http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-314 [...] So it’s an especially big deal when the FCC buries, burns, or ignores reports that contain evidence that deregulation hurts consumers and local communities, aside from it being further evidence of secrecy and malfeasance in the federal government. One of the reports said consolidation in television station ownership resulted in less local news coverage; the other said deregulation of the radio industry had resulted in marked consolidation. [...] […] So it’s an especially big deal when the FCC buries, burns, or ignores reports that contain evidence that deregulation hurts consumers and local communities, aside from it being further evidence of secrecy and malfeasance in the federal government. One of the reports said consolidation in television station ownership resulted in less local news coverage; the other said deregulation of the radio industry had resulted in marked consolidation. […]

]]> By: The Click Heard Round the World http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-293 The Click Heard Round the World Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:37:48 +0000 http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-293 <strong>The report the FCC doesn't want you to read...</strong> Four prominent public interest media reform groups -- Free Press, Consumers Union, the Consumers Federation of America, and Media Access Project -- have issued a letter to FCC Chair Kevin Martin urging him to investigate the allegations that important ... The report the FCC doesn’t want you to read…

Four prominent public interest media reform groups — Free Press, Consumers Union, the Consumers Federation of America, and Media Access Project — have issued a letter to FCC Chair Kevin Martin urging him to investigate the allegations that important …

]]> By: Lying Media Bastards » FCC Commissions, Destroys Report http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-291 Lying Media Bastards » FCC Commissions, Destroys Report Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:21:33 +0000 http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-291 [...] The whistleblower who made this report public, a former FCC lawyer, claims that “senior managers at the agency ordered that ‘every last piece’ of the report be destroyed. ‘The whole project was just stopped, end of discussion.” Not sure who those “senior managers” are. Some sites are claiming that the order to destroy was given by former FCC head Michael Powell (son of Colin Powell). This would make sense, as he created the localism task force, but I haven’t seen any evidence yet that Powell gave the kill command (Powell even hearing about the report). Powell has stepped down, and is being replaced by another pro-”free media market” commissioner, Kevin Martin. At his renomination hearings, Senator Barbara Boxer smacked him around a bit with news about this report, if you feel like watching the video. Martin has solemnly promised to find out what happened regarding the report, and says “it is unclear why this report was never released to the public.” Actually, it’s really, really clear. [...] […] The whistleblower who made this report public, a former FCC lawyer, claims that “senior managers at the agency ordered that ‘every last piece’ of the report be destroyed. ‘The whole project was just stopped, end of discussion.” Not sure who those “senior managers” are. Some sites are claiming that the order to destroy was given by former FCC head Michael Powell (son of Colin Powell). This would make sense, as he created the localism task force, but I haven’t seen any evidence yet that Powell gave the kill command (Powell even hearing about the report). Powell has stepped down, and is being replaced by another pro-”free media market” commissioner, Kevin Martin. At his renomination hearings, Senator Barbara Boxer smacked him around a bit with news about this report, if you feel like watching the video. Martin has solemnly promised to find out what happened regarding the report, and says “it is unclear why this report was never released to the public.” Actually, it’s really, really clear. […]

]]> By: mediageek » FCC Buried Media Ownership Report http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-280 mediageek » FCC Buried Media Ownership Report Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:52:50 +0000 http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/09/14/cover-up-fcc-bureaucrat-buried-evidence-to-protect-friends-in-big-media-2/#comment-280 [...] Stop Big Media has a leaked copy of the report the FCC doesn’t want us to see. [...] […] Stop Big Media has a leaked copy of the report the FCC doesn’t want us to see. […]

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