FCC AP reinforces media ownership cover-up, documents altered

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AP Confirms/reinforce fcc ownership cover-up.....to funny, somebody needs to go to jail for this stuff

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4500854.html

While that review is not yet complete, interviews with past and present employees of the FCC by The Associated Press reinforce Brown's account. Economic research reports were at times altered to reflect a more favorable view of lifting ownership caps, and at least in some

 

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looks like martin admited to the cover up today during the hearings...on the hill

http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/#

By Jeffrey Yorke

Senators pressed FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and four other commissioners on the progress of the ongoing media ownership rules and demanded that the commission conclude its survey of consumer's feelings about how their public interests are being served before the agency rewrites any regulations.

During a Thursday (Feb. 1) Senate Commerce Committee hearing billed "Assessing the Communications Marketplace: A View from the FCC" that featured the rare appearance of all five FCC commissioners before the committee, Sen. Byron Dorgan told Martin that "the market from time to time needs a referee and that's the job of the FCC." And he became emphatic when he told the commissioners, "You shouldn't start ownership issues until you finish localism hearings."

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