The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council submitted an...
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council submitted an erratum to the FCC detailing the peer review process for its study of the impacts of cross-ownership on minority and women media owners, as expected (CD July 29 p11). The erratum was…
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submitted as part of a response to several questions from the commission, according to the erratum. Several public interest groups attacked the MMTC study for its methodology and small sample size, and questioned the peer review process (CD July 24 p8). The peer review process for the document took place over conference call, and was done at “the design stage” of the report and just before the final report was published, the filing said. The peer reviewers asked questions about the proposed methodology for the study and “ultimately expressed comfort with the study going forward using the draft instrument and sampling methodology given the time constraints,” said the erratum. Before the study was published, the peer reviewers “concurred that the study should be characterized as useful albeit not reliably definitive primarily because of sample composition and the modest number of interviews” said the erratum (http://bit.ly/14MRnHN).