To enhance the role of minorities in telecom and media...
To enhance the role of minorities in telecom and media enterprises, people must recognize the enormity of the problem of media exclusion, pressure the FCC to get serious about finding solutions, and make diversity a priority in everything the FCC…
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does, former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said in a Benton Foundation blog post Monday (http://xrl.us/bnkpy5). “We have to develop a sense of national urgency about this problem,” he wrote. “Our country is now nearly one-third minority -- yet minority issues and cultural contributions receive shockingly sparse attention in our media.” Copps urged the FCC to update the Adarand studies compiled in 2000, which examined market entry barriers faced by minority- and women-owned small businesses in the telecom industry. “These are not issues to push under the rug until the election is past,” he wrote.