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FCC Orders Anti-Monopoly Report Destroyed 273

jagger writes "According to an article on MSNBC a report, written by two economists in the FCC's Media Bureau, showed local ownership of television stations adds almost five and one-half minutes of total news to broadcasts and more than three minutes of 'on-location' news. The conclusion is at odds with FCC arguments made when it voted in 2003 to increase the number of television stations a company could own in a single market. Senior managers at the agency ordered that 'every last piece' of the report be destroyed."
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FCC Orders Anti-Monopoly Report Destroyed

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  • Oblig 1984 (Score:5, Funny)

    by da3dAlus ( 20553 ) <dustin.grau@gm[ ].com ['ail' in gap]> on Friday September 15, 2006 @04:44PM (#16116615) Homepage Journal
    Minitruth has determined this information to be doubleplusungood. Please deposit all copies of this report to the memory hole immediately.
  • QUICK! (Score:2, Funny)

    by eno2001 ( 527078 ) on Friday September 15, 2006 @04:54PM (#16116701) Homepage Journal
    FCC Head: "Can you get me a line to Bill Clinton"?
    FCC Operator: "Bill Clinton? Why do you want to talk to that no good lying sonovabitch with a cunt for a wife and who likes to get blown by fat ugly chicks who look nothing like Ann Coulter"?
    FCC Head: "Because I hear he knows of good paper shredding services. I've got some hot docs here that need to be completely and totally destroyed before they make it out to the public".
    FCC Operator: "Ahhh... all is clear to me now boss. Sure thing sweetie".
    FCC Head: "By the way, can you head up to my office in fifteen? Remember to dress comfortably and don't forget the donkey".
    FCC Operator: "Sure thing boss! I can't wait! Imagine the nerve of that Clinton asshole fucking that fat pig of a woman in the Oval office. At least we Republicans know it's far better to fuck REAL farm animals".
    FCC Head: "See you in fifteen".
  • by Zardus ( 464755 ) <yans@yancomm.net> on Friday September 15, 2006 @05:00PM (#16116744) Homepage Journal
    See... I have mod points, but for the life of me I can't find "-1, Retarded" in the available mods....
  • by megaditto ( 982598 ) on Friday September 15, 2006 @05:39PM (#16117080)
    My point exactly.

    It is all Clinton's and Democrats' fault, since they (Clinton and the Democrats) currently control the White House, the Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Republicans have no say whatsoever. As you know, Clinton took the funding away from FEMA before Katrina, appointed college dropouts to edit scientific reports on global warming, and even appointed this hack to head FCC.

    Remember that Republicans have no power to subpoena anyone and launch an investigation into anything since they are the minority party, be it

    -Iraq (damn Clinton got us there by getting CIA to lie about WMDs there),
    -9/11 (Monica distracted Clinton from reading 'Bin Laden determined to attack the U.S.' memo in August '01),
    -gas prices (damn Democrats get donations from the oil companies),
    -unemployment or healthcare (ditto),
    -record deficit (damn liberals love their Big-Spending Government),
    -illegal wiretapping (damn Clinton has no respect for the Constitution by spying on his oponents)
    -tax cuts at the time of war (fucking Democrats setting us up for tax hike in the future)
    -letting North Korea develop nukes (that's 9/11 Windows' fault there, not just Clinton's)
    -letting $4,000,000,000 in cash literally disappear after taking over Iraq's Food-for-oil accounts (Democrats paying off their terror buddies for 9/11?)
    -or taking bribes from Abramoff (50 Democrats took bribes vs 1 Republican)
    -election finance reforms (currently the Democrats have 500% more money than the Republicans to spend on elections, somehow)

    Please remember that since Republicans do not have the majority in either House or Senate, they are powerless to bring any laws to vote, hold an oversight hearing, subpoena any witnesses, or launch any investigations.

    This is why we should vote Republican this November to restore checks and balances to our Government.
  • Re:So? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Hamilton Lovecraft ( 993413 ) on Friday September 15, 2006 @07:15PM (#16117673)
    Absymal Ruby performance is Bush's fault. Everyone knows that. He ignored a briefing about it.
  • Re:So? (Score:1, Funny)

    by runningduck ( 810975 ) on Friday September 15, 2006 @07:41PM (#16117816)
    Clinton ignored RoR his entire 8 years in office. He is to blame!
  • by mrbooze ( 49713 ) on Friday September 15, 2006 @08:08PM (#16117962)
    To be sure, such categores of information as "news", "science", and "educational programming" are of immense, value, but any wise observer of history will be aware that market forces will recognize this value and favor production of these types of information accordingly.

    Seriously, what color is the sky on your planet?
  • Re:So? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15, 2006 @11:20PM (#16118636)
    I modded you down because you are wrong. When I moderate, I try to be fair and balanced, so the drivel that stupid liberals like you put out does not deserve to be seen.

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