Multiple civil rights groups urged FCC Chairman Julius...
Multiple civil rights groups urged FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to release the commission’s plans for Telecom Act Section 257 minority media ownership studies and commit the agency to considering them by 2015, said an ex parte filing by the Leadership…
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Conference on Civil Rights on Thursday. “We write to urge you to release, before you step down from your post as Chairman, the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed methodology on the long-planned studies.” The letter was signed by the NAACP, ACLU and Asian American Justice Center, along with many other organizations (http://bit.ly/10RF2mZ). The organizations criticized the commission for dragging its feet on the ownership studies, saying that while they “support the Commission’s apparent desire not to rush to an imperfect decision in the Quadrennial Review docket, we are concerned that the decision to await input from a single, narrowly focused, study before the Commission makes a decision” could further delay action. “From public statements and meetings with your staff, it appears that the Section 257 studies are ready to move ahead to [the public comment stage] and that there is therefore no reason for further delay,” said the letter.