An ex-FCC Media Bureau chief criticized academics’ draft report to...
An ex-FCC Media Bureau chief criticized academics’ draft report to the FCC on barriers to Americans getting information under Section 257 of the 1996 Telecom Act, which was presented earlier this summer at a commission workshop (CD June 27 p7).…
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Donna Gregg said the study done by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, after the bureau and Office of Communications Business Opportunities solicited research, departed from the commission’s report on the future of media. The Section 257 review wasn’t as comprehensive because it only reviewed other studies, while the report on media’s future did original interviews and other work, said the bureau chief under Chairman Kevin Martin. “The Barrier Study’s link to Section 257 of the Communications Act may involve the Commission in media ownership issues that have proven challenging in the past and already appear to be generating some controversy,” she wrote in a Free State Foundation brief Friday (http://bit.ly/OQ3oGb). “On the questions of entry barriers and ownership diversity, the Commission will need to proceed with caution.” Representatives of the bureau and office had no comment.