Free Press: FCC Reform Bill Will Gut Public Interest Standard
Free Press, June 22, 2011
The House communications subcommittee will hold a hearing on a bill aimed at "reforming" the FCC. The bill, introduced by subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.), would gut the agency's merger review process, place strict limitations on the commissioners' rulemaking authority, and eliminate the "public interest" as the standard by which the FCC is supposed to make its decisions.
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