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Senator Barbara Boxer revealed in a committee meeting on September 14, 2006, that the FCC 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."
AP story on MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn .com/id/14836500/
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On The Communicators: Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, discusses the FCC investigation. Program from June 8, 2008.
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Hundreds gathered at Harvard's law school for an FCC hearing on net neutrality. At issue is whether all traffic on the internet should be treated equally. The FCC is investigating complaints that Comcast has interfered with certain types of web traffic, specifically peer to peer file-sharing.
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http://www.outfoxed. org/ Clip from the film "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism'. Common Cause President Chellie Pingree discusses the FCC and informed members of a democracy.
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FCC Chair pushes deregulation to allow one company to own TV, radio, and newspapers in local market
Monday December 3rd, 2007
"There are just five or six companies in America that dominate the media landscape?giant multinational conglomerates. So there may be a lot of different voices but they're coming from the same ventriloquist."
-Jonathan Adelstein, FCC Commissioner
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FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell (R) joins us to discuss the results of the digital television transition in Wilmington, NC and what it means for the nationwide transition beginning on Feb. 2009. Guest host Ted Hearn, Multichannel News, Washington News Editor also joins our discussion. Program from Sept. 13, 2008.