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kudos:2 | Repost? Wasn't this news posted yesterday on here? Or am I having deja vu? | |
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Santa Cruz, CA | Re: Repost? I think the other article was about him sidestepping getting fired by Congress. This article is different in that now he is being investigated more thoroughly.
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| RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | You are probably thinking of...
»Martin Side Stepped Forced FCC Exit
...from earlier in the week.
Nothing like a good old fashioned political witch hunt in an election year. I'm no Kev fan but this looks more like Congressional grandstanding than anything of substance.
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| |  N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
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kudos:1 | Re: Repost? Congressional grandstanding in an election year?
I demand you retract that statement, sir! You most certainly are a racist, a communist, a space alien, and a homoSEXHSUALLL for implying such a thing!
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| | | | | Re: Repost? And a TERRORIST, EVIL-DOER, and Supporter of Terror. | |
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join:2000-05-11 | Yeah, and I hate the troops and children, too.
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kudos:1 | Re: Repost? GASP!
Won't someone please think of the CHILDREN! | |
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| | | | said by RadioDoc:You are probably thinking of... » Martin Side Stepped Forced FCC Exit...from earlier in the week. Nothing like a good old fashioned political witch hunt in an election year. I'm no Kev fan but this looks more like Congressional grandstanding than anything of substance. Time to throw tea into the harbor again.  | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: Repost? We can set up a trendy cafe. Door man will unhook the boardwalk chain to let you into the cafe, VIP treatment all the way, be sure to wear a life preserver. | |
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Either way. Its not new to me. Martin is a Bell Fan boy. | |
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join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | This was news on here not long ago But not the first time this has been known.. | |
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Let's Broadcast! said by article :
About 9 percent of the closed investigations resulted in an enforcement action and 83 percent resulted in no enforcement. Sounds like it's time to start up an unlicensed radio station! WOOHOO!
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| | | FCC ineptitude And they wonder why the various providers are so blatantly anti- customer. They have a 91% chance of never being brought up an any violations of the FCC laws unless they pissed of the jack-asses in Washington. | |
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| RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Re: Let's Broadcast! The vast majority of those complaints are generated by right-wing religious fanatic organizations' "complaint-o-matic" campaigns because someone saw a nipple poking into a tee shirt, or someone hearing "damn" or "piss" or "hell" or "liberal" on TV. They deserve to be ignored.
Unlicensed broadcasting gets you a $10,000 fine. I hope your credit is good.
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| |  cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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| Re: Let's Broadcast! said by RadioDoc:The vast majority of those complaints are generated by right-wing religious fanatic organizations' "complaint-o-matic" campaigns because someone saw a nipple poking into a tee shirt, or someone hearing "damn" or "piss" or "hell" or "liberal" on TV. They deserve to be ignored. Actually the vast majority of complaints are generated by right-wing religious fanatic organizations. They are generated by a single right wing religious fanatic organization. I don't have any recent numbers, but this article references that ParentsTV.org accounted for 99.8 to 99.9% of the complaints in 2000 and 2001. Those complaints originate using their cookie cutter form that allows you to easily spam the FCC. The PTC even bitched and moaned to the GAO because the FCC doesn't treat the e-mail complains as serious as "real" ones. | |
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| | Elementary School Math Hmmm. 9% + 83% = 92%
Where did 8% of the complaints go?
Could some employees of the FCC also be receiving money from telcos to "lose" those complaints?
No, can't be. Government employees are paragons of honesty and virtue.
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join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | Complaint Disposition Reason issue is Congressional Bulloney I'm sorry. I don't like the Republicans, nor do I like what Powell and Martin did to broadband competition. I am, of course, happy to see that what Comcast did was offensive enough even to Margin that it appears that action is coming.
The following offends my sensibilities:
...quoting the article...
a new study today showing the FCC also does a poor job tracking citizen complaints. Can we compare the FCC with the FTC for a moment? How many innocent people have been scammed for thousands by Internet fraud, while the FTC lets Western Union pocket the profits from these acts? Other than erecting a "be careful" web page, they've done nothing.
83 percent resulted in no enforcement Why? Because that's the way it works. The FCC and FTC can't do everything. It has to pick and choose its battles. The number of complaints about any one particular thing is certainly a factor, as is the impact of the issue within the complaint. They can't close a complaint as "unfounded" because the complaint probably wasn't unfounded.
The metric important to me is whether they picked from among the issues pool those things with concern the most people and those things that concern people the most. Everything else falls into some varying degree of "optional," IMHO.
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| CorydonCultivant son jardinPremium
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Denver, CO | Re: Complaint Disposition Reason issue is Congressional Bulloney said by funchords:The metric important to me is whether they picked from among the issues pool those things with concern the most people and those things that concern people the most. Everything else falls into some varying degree of "optional," IMHO. I think that like all politicians, they pick the issues that have the most vocal complainers, not necessarily the issues that concern the most people. Thus it's no big surprise that they go after things like Janet Jackson's nipple and P2P. | |
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join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI | Wakeup call  Oh.. guess congress finally woke up (to the tune of millions of "BRIBES" masquerading as "lobby money") to what's going on over at the FCC. Welcome to the party guys. Now do something about this chump gone wild. | |
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join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | Total Crap I am not defending Kevin Martin but really this is all Congress is doing demanding documents and investigating, mean while nothing else is getting done. If I was Martin I would send The House of Representative a case of TP so they can wipe off their lips after I told them to kiss my ass. 
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Glen Head, NY
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| Immunity I thought being bought and paid for by the industry gave you immunity from such investigations. Especially since so much of congress had been bought and paid for as well by the very same telecom groups.
To think there is nothing better for congress to do than have yet another hearing into "corruption". What they really need to do is hold a hearing on an organization that has no corruption. That would be news indeed.
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Erie, PA
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| Re: Immunity said by n2jtx:I thought being bought and paid for by the industry gave you immunity from such investigations. Especially since so much of congress had been bought and paid for as well by the very same telecom groups. To think there is nothing better for congress to do than have yet another hearing into "corruption". What they really need to do is hold a hearing on an organization that has no corruption. That would be news indeed. Except they probably can not find any | |
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