Pai: Chairman Wheeler Stuck In The 70s

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FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has commented on FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler’s proposal to keep the Commission’s media ownership rules status quo. Pai says the FCC’s rules should reflect the media marketplace of today. “Unfortunately, Chairman Wheeler’s media ownership proposal reflects the world that existed in the 1970s.” Here’s more from Pai…

“Last month, the FCC had no problem approving not one, but two multibillion dollar cable mergers. Last year, it signed off on AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV. Yet, it now gets the vapors at the prospect of a newspaper in Scranton, Pennsylvania, owning a single radio station. Whatever the motivation for the Chairman’s proposal, it has nothing to do with the evidence in the record, principled decision-making, or the law. Indeed, given current trends, it is likely that the Commission’s newspaper broadcast cross-ownership restrictions will outlive the print newspaper industry itself.”

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