Press Release
FCC Report Does Little to Promote Media Diversity
Contact: Timothy Karr, 201-533-8838
WASHINGTON -- Today the Federal Communications Commission released its Section 257 report – an analysis on market barriers faced by small media and telecommunications businesses released by the federal agency every three years.
S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, issued the following statement:
"The FCC should be embarrassed by this feeble attempt to promote media diversity. By law, the FCC is required to identify and enact rules that eliminate the barriers preventing small businesses from entering the media and telecom markets – businesses that are far more likely to be owned by women and people of color.
"But the Commission's report turns the law on its head, stating that its mandate is only to eliminate FCC regulations that pose a barrier to entry. This report is merely a laundry list of FCC activities over the past three years. It does little to identify market entry barriers, much less propose rules to actually promote small business ownership by women and people of color."
Read the Section 257 Report: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-181A1.pdf
Read the statement from Commissioner Copps: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-181A2.pdf
Read the statement from Commissioner Adelstein:http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-181A3.pdf
S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, issued the following statement:
"The FCC should be embarrassed by this feeble attempt to promote media diversity. By law, the FCC is required to identify and enact rules that eliminate the barriers preventing small businesses from entering the media and telecom markets – businesses that are far more likely to be owned by women and people of color.
"But the Commission's report turns the law on its head, stating that its mandate is only to eliminate FCC regulations that pose a barrier to entry. This report is merely a laundry list of FCC activities over the past three years. It does little to identify market entry barriers, much less propose rules to actually promote small business ownership by women and people of color."
Read the Section 257 Report: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-181A1.pdf
Read the statement from Commissioner Copps: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-181A2.pdf
Read the statement from Commissioner Adelstein:http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-181A3.pdf
