- 8/20/10 – Statement of FCCC ommissioner Clyburn at “The Future of the Internet” Public Hearing, Minneapolis, Minnesota: “an open Internet is indeed the great equalizer. It enables traditionally underrepresented groupslike minorities and womento have an equal voice and an equal opportunity. It allows any connected individual to distribute their ideas to a global network or run their business right from their very own home..”
- 8/19/10 – Statement of Commissioner Copps at “The Future of the Internet” Public Hearing Minneapolis, Minnesota: “What happened was that in less than a generation, a media landscape that should have been moving toward more diversity, more localism and more competition was transformed into a market controlled by a handful of players, too often providing little more than infotainment, canned music and program homogenization. Their newsrooms were shuttered, reporters were yanked off the beat and fired, and investigative journalism consigned to the endangered species list. The apologists told us this was the natural result of changes in technology and markets, and things would all work out fine in the world of new media if we just looked the other way a while longer. The facts told another story. The huge debts these mega-companies took on to curry favor with investors and hedge-fund operators overwhelmed broadcaster obligations to be good stewards of the peoples airwaves. The publics right to know got lost in the frenzy of financial hyper-speculation.
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