FCC Ordered Staff To DESTROY Copies Of Draft Study On Media Ownership

[kpete]

Sept. 14, 2006, 1:41PM
Lawyer says FCC ordered study destroyed


By JOHN DUNBAR Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

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 TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.

The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. received a copy of the report "indirectly from someone within the FCC who believed the information should be made public," according to Boxer spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz.

Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that "every last piece" of the report be destroyed. "The whole project was just stopped _ end of discussion," he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC's Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said.

more at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4187090.html

[BootinUp]

1. You see how inept these people are?

They can't hide it when they lie and cheat it all comes out in the wash.

[whistle]

4. These are poster child anti-intellectual fascists running the FCC

...I'll only list the one which applies, plus the link:

<snip>
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
by Lawrence Britt
Spring 2003
Free Inquiry magazine

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

The 14 characteristics are:

Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

<others at> http://www.veteransforpeace.org/The_14_characteristics_030303.htm

[BootinUp]

5. Thanks for the link.

Interesting reading.

[whistle]

2. Those pesky independent academic types always make things

...so difficult for political ass-kissing neoconservative fascist bureaucrats.:sarcasm:

This is another example of blatant intellectual censorship as well as government research manipulation and intimidation by the a Bush departmental appointee. The underground draft copy of the study should be made public and declassified.

[TexasLawyer]

3. our tax dollars paid for that report

let's see what we bought.

[Canuckistanian]

7. You're damned right

Somebody was paid good money for that report (my guess, the low $millions).

And if the report was commissioned in the name of the people, then, by God, the results of said study should be part of the public record.

No exceptions.

[EST]

6. And the positive point of the whole article--

"Boxer's office said if she does not receive adequate answers to her questions, she will push for an investigation by the FCC inspector general."

[Lusted4]

8. There must be something in that Powell blood

the apple don't fall far from the tree.

[Wilms]

9. k(pete) &R n/t

[bobthedrummer]

10. Columbia Journalism Review has an excellent MSM ownership

resource guide maintained by Aaron Moore PhD. called "Who Owns What" (last update 6-27-06)
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

The FCC is an operational arm of The Ministry of Perception Management/Propaganda/PsyOps
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x71919#top

[lisainmilo]

11. Gotta keep those kids under control!

This is becoming more and more like NAZI Germany!

[Marr]

12. I don't understand. Why would a conservative administration protect

the liberal media?

I don't know whether to be shocked or awed!

[ShortnFiery]

13. This story should NOT be let to fade out of the spotlight. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

14. kick