Commissioner Copps's blog

On Monday night, we had a great discussion about the media consolidation efforts at the FCC. Check out the conversation and take your comments, thoughts, and ideas out into the rest of the Free Press Action Network.

 

As the New York Times reported last week, the FCC is moving quickly towards a vote on media ownership issues. Many believe that the agency is moving too hastily—and I share their sense of concern. The process so far has been accompanied by FCC-commissioned studies, some of whose conclusions and methodologies have been called into serious question. The required peer review process to accompany those studies appears deeply flawed. Not enough hearings have been held. And the time for public comment has been seriously truncated. The rush to judgment is on. It must be slowed.

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