The FCC should hold a “full and proper public field...
The FCC should hold a “full and proper public field hearing with the full Commission in attendance” on the agency’s rulemaking proposing some media ownership deregulation, two Democratic lawmakers from Washington state wrote Chairman Julius Genachowski. “While the Commission’s practice…
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of holding local hearings on this issue is well-established, it has yet to hold similar public hearings in the context of the 2010 media ownership proceeding.” A 2007 field hearing in Seattle “was met with considerable criticism because the Commission provided only five days notice and conducted no community outreach to encourage attendance by the public,” wrote Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. Jay Inslee. “We urge you not to repeat these past mistakes and invite the full Commission to attend a Seattle hearing on this issue in early April or early May of this year.” The agency has held “a series of public workshops” including ones in California, Florida and South Carolina before a 2011 notice of inquiry in the quadrennial review was issued, Genachowski replied April 5 to the Feb. 9 letter from the lawmakers, who sit on their respective bodies’ Commerce committees. The correspondence was posted Tuesday to docket 12-2 (http://xrl.us/bm448w).