| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Dreamin Posts: 3,367 Points: 21,357, Level: 92 | Level up: 1%, 993 Points needed |  |  Lawyer says FCC destroyed study on media
By Associated Press | September 15, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local television news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.
The 2004 report came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC chairman Kevin Martin.
managers at the agency ordered that ``every last piece" of the report be destroyed. ``The whole project was just stopped -- end of discussion,"
... The conclusion is at odds with FCC arguments made when it voted in 2003 to increase the number of TV stations a company could own in a single market. It was part of a broader decision liberalizing ownership rules. Lawyer says FCC destroyed study on media - The Boston Globe FACTS ARE STUPID THINGS---RONALD REAGAN Live the Light, Give the Light,
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