Lacking the “benefit of public comment” on broadcast ownership data...
Lacking the “benefit of public comment” on broadcast ownership data before moving to adopt FCC media ownership rules was opposed by public-interest lawyer Andrew Schwartzman. His filing posted Thursday to docket 09-182 reported on a lobbying meeting last week with…
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an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, before the quadrennial media ownership order circulated and the Media Bureau released such data, both occurring Wednesday (CD Nov 15 p1). “The failure to seek comment under similar circumstances resulted in a reversal of the Commission’s earlier ownership decision,” Schwartzman wrote (http://xrl.us/bnzum4) of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand last year of the last quadrennial ownership order. The conversation was made only on Schwartzman’s behalf, though Free Press, which he represents on media ownership, shares his view, he told us.