FCC CHAIRMAN POWELL LAYS AN EGG

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: July 7, 2004 10:06:39 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FCC CHAIRMAN POWELL LAYS AN EGG
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com

CHAIRMAN POWELL LAYS AN EGG

He's bright, personable, an excellent lawyer, a distinguished veteran, 
and the son of the Secretary of State. Yet, Michael Powell's record as 
the Chairman of the FCC has been one misstep and reversal after 
another. In telecom and media regulation, his quest to "deregulate" has 
disintegrated into a search for something -- anything! -- that will 
pass muster with the courts, the Congress, and, most importantly, the 
American people. Now that a U.S. Court of Appeals has tossed out the 
FCC's new rules that would have exponentially increased media 
concentration and consolidation, Michael Powell's tenure as Chairman, 
which so many expected would lead to him becoming a star in Republican 
politics, has come up empty. How will Chairman Powell be remembered? 
Probably not for the Commission's few accomplishments during his 
tenure. Rather, he will more likely be remembered for the tremendous 
opportunity he had to move communications policy forward in this 
country while at the same time his own political star ascended to the 
heavens. And how he squandered that opportunity. To use the lingo of 
Daily Variety when a Broadway show flops, Michael Powell has truly 
"laid an egg."

[SOURCE: MediaChannel.org AUTHOR: Jonathan Rintels, Executive Director 
of the Center for Creative Voices in Media]
<http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert220.shtml>


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