Followup: Powell denys seeing FCC media ownership study

[dajoki]

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14850729/from/RS.3/

Powell denys seeing media ownership study
Former FCC chief says he didn't order report destroyed

Updated: 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell says he never saw a study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage.

Powell, now a consultant, said through his assistant Judy Mann that "he never saw the report, he never heard of the report until yesterday and he certainly never ordered anything destroyed or stopped."

The draft report, which surfaced earlier this week, was at odds with agency policy under Powell regarding media ownership issues. A former FCC lawyer told the AP that senior managers at the agency ordered the report be destroyed.

A copy was obtained by U.S.Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who asked about it during a confirmation hearing of current FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on Tuesday.

[William Seger]

1. Oh, okay, I believe him

not.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Of COURSE I would automatically believe anything said by the son

of the man who started his meteoric rise in the military ranks by his coverup of My Lai.

[dajoki]

6. Don't forget the end of his career...

making false presentations at the UN on Iraq's WMD.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Yes, I know about that. So does everyone else.

Not everyone seems to be aware of his role in the My Lai coverup, so I'm trying to remind everybody that Powell didn't just go criminal during the Bush admin. He's been carrying water for the criminal enterprises of the US gov't for a helluva long time.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Ok good. That settles it.

[Nite Owl]

4. If he were chairman and

knew nothing about the study then one can draw the conclusion that he was what shall we say? Incompetent maybe.

[democrat_patriot]

5. Will he state that under oath?

That's the next question.

[blm]

7. Exactly - let's hear it again - UNDER OATH.

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