FCC to hear about public interest at San Antonio hearing

[Judi Lynn]

FCC to hear about public interest at San Antonio hearing
By T.A. BADGER Associated Press Writer
January 28, 2004

SAN ANTONIO- The Federal Communications Commission is being too timid in making sure that powerful broadcasting companies meet the programming standards of their local communities, one of the agency's commissioners said Wednesday.

Michael Copps, one of the FCC's five commissioners, said the agency should make better use of its control over broadcast license renewals to counter a growing problem of indecency and violence on the airwaves.

"If we at the commission could just bring ourselves to send one of these more outrageous cases to a hearing for licenses revocation," Copps said, "Big Media would get the message real quick and they would begin to take us seriously, which they don't right now."

All five of the FCC commissioners traveled to San Antonio for a public hearing on localism in broadcasting. It was the second of six such sessions to be held around the nation.
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http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/nw_state/article/0,1874,ABIL_7974_2612565,00.html

[krkaufman]

1. Suggestions for further FCC investigations into indecency....

I have some suggestions for further FCC investigations into indecency....

• Bill O'Reilly
  
• Sean Hannity
  
• Joe Scarborough
  
• Dennis Miller
  
• McLaughlin Report
  
• Any show allowing Ann Coulter or Bob Novak to appear.
  ...

[Democat]

2. They care more about the word "fuck" than they do about extreme right bias

Which one is destroying America?

The real four letter word that's hurting American's children is B-U-S-H!

[dbt]

3. I got yer INDECENCY right here!

It's called too few corporations owning too many stations. There's your trouble!

:argh:
dbt