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All’s Well in FCC-Land?
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 10:31am
ALL'S WELL IN FCC-LAND?
[SOURCE: StopBigMedia.com]
[Commentary] Some things you are not likely to hear at Thursday's "State of the FCC" meeting: The FCC is under investigation by Congress to determine if FCC procedures “are being conducted in a fair, open, efficient and transparent manner.” The FCC has been called a rogue agency by members of Congress.
The FCC, according to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, tips off well-connected insider lobbyists about upcoming actions while closing out the public.
The FCC continues to preside over a precipitous decline in America’s international broadband ranking. The FCC just gutted media ownership rules against the will of 99% of the public. The FCC crushed public, educational, and governmental (PEG) cable channels with its unlawful reform of local cable franchising rules. The FCC kowtowed to the wireless industry and left consumers under locked and blocked cell phone plans. The real FCC is not a well-oiled, democracy-fostering, competition-producing, public-interest-serving machine. It is broken. It ignores the public and kneels at the knee of Big Media and Big Telecom.
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2008/01/15/alls-well-in-fcc-land/

