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07-15-2003, 07:40 AM
This Forum has covered the recent FCC rule on media ownership in some detail. In an earlier article we even gave a proposal to subject FCC rulemaking to the procedural balances accorded rules issued by Executive Branch agencies.

Reed Hundt, former FCC Chairman states:

Reed Hundt: I think that for those who believe in the marketplace of ideas, it was a day that will live in ignominy.

This isn't about competition. These rules represent an abandonment of the traditional policing function of the FCC. They represent a disregard of the responsibility to promote democracy. They represent a massive refusal to follow the dictates of congress. They represent a fiction surrounding a falsehood.


Read article:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2003/28/we_440_01.html