FCC Ordered Anti-Monopoly Media Ownership Report Destroyed

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FCC Ordered Anti-Monopoly Media Ownership Report Destroyed

09-16-2006, 07:39 AM,

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FCC Ordered Anti-Monopoly Media Ownership Report Destroyed

Quote: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...

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...

full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/

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