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Re: Hello and Welcome to 2001
said by dynodb  :said by major marco :The nation's chief telecommunications regulator stands accused of misrepresenting the facts while pushing through rules that will make it easier for big phone companies to get into cable television. Paid telco shill Martin misrepresented facts in favor of his corporate taskmasters? Quick, alert the presses, we have a newsflash here... Read the article; the story the FCC sounds pretty credible. The Tampa lawyer Smith first claims that the FCC made false accusations... then practically admits those claims are true later in the article. Are we really supposed to believe that Verizon could've said "no thanks, I don't think we'll pay" and still gotten the franchise? Not bloody likely; of course it was a demand, whether officially represented as so by Tampa or not. Yea, headline unfairly labels the link "made up stories entirely" when that clearly isn't the case. I am all for bashing the telcos when it's warranted, which is often enough that you don't have to ... errr... make it up. |
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dynodb
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| Happens all too often on BBR. Perhaps the FCC simply made a mistake in the way the represented the issue, though Tampa's $13 million dollar "wish list" sounds like extortion to me.
In any case, the version told by the FCC ceratainly wasn't a "made up" story by any honest point of view. That is my main objection, but lately such deliberate misrepresentation seems to occur on an almost daily with BBR front page articles.
Of course such misrepresentations and dishonesty will always be met with cheers by the "fight the power" crowd, but the lack of objectivity remains. |
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That is my main objection, but lately such deliberate misrepresentation seems to occur on an almost daily with BBR front page articles.
Your claims of factual error are dissected in the other thread. Not only by me, but by someone intimately familiar with the franchise negotiation process.
Let's save time, and I'll direct you to where you can find the kind of "objective" information you're looking for:
»www.qwest.com/about/media/pressroom/ |
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