Posted on 05/10/2012 9:36:11 AM PDT by ColdOne
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski testified Wednesday that his agency takes calls to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses "very seriously."
Groups, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), have urged the FCC to pull Fox's licenses because of evidence that its parent company News Corp. hacked people's phones in the United Kingdom to get stories.
During a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) pressed Genachowski on whether he plans to do anything about the allegations.
Genachowski said it wouldn't be appropriate to comment on a specific case, but that the commission is "certainly aware of the serious issues that have been raised in the U.K."
He noted that the law requires that the FCC only grant broadcast licenses to people of "good character."
"If any issues arise, the commission has an obligation, we would take it very seriously, to look at the record, look at the facts and apply the law," Genachowski said.
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In this case, if I am not mistaken, they got a second hand old phone that some politics or media star owned. I believe, and i could be wrong, that the so-called 'hacking' consisted of beating the password on a product that THEY NOW OWNED and that they had the right to do with as they wished. This isn't truly hacking, but you know how the media blurs terms on purpose.
First admendment?
First admendment?
We doon need no stinking first admendment!
I don't know what you are talking about. Neither faced charges for "lying to police".
Clive Goodman plead guilty to conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority, in the case of three aides to the royal family.
Glenn Mulcaire plead guilty to the unlawful interception of communications and conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority.
So you're contending that they conspired to obey the law?
He noted that the law requires that the FCC only grant broadcast licenses to people of “good character.”
Gee, guess all those black “hate” radio stations in large urban areas are in trouble.
License renewal “season” for TV stations starts June 1, 2012, when all TV stations in DC, MD, VA and WV file their applications with the FCC.
NC and SC go on August 1; FL and PR go on October 1; and AL and GA go on December 1. The rest of the country goes in various groups of states, until PA and DE file in the last group on April 1, 2015.
Everyone gets to file a “Petition to Deny” against the NBC owned WRC-TV in Washington, DC and the CBS owned WJZ-TV in Baltimore on or before September 4, 2012, as well as the Fox owned WTTG, Washington, DC. A theory which can lead to a hearing before an administrative law judge is “intentional news distortion”.
I think the first Disney/ABC renewal to come up is WXYZ-TV in Detroit next summer.
You mean like cropping a 911 call to cause a race riot?
The FCC does not have the authority to issue licenses to networks or cable service providers.
The FCC can take action against Fox broadcast affiliates (including FOX owned and operated stations) for material sent over the airwaves, but there is nothing the FCC can do about the Fox (cable) News Channel.
Any hearing on it wouldn’t be held until at least 2013; by that time the a-hole Genachowski will be long gone from the FCC.
The accusations included illegally accessing phone mail messages, hacking computers, and buying wiretap information from corrupt police.
There was never any information that Murdoch was involved or knew of any of it. Of course the leftists are pounding the issue to try to punish Murdoch for not being sufficiently leftwing (he's hardly a conservative) but the crimes were legitimate and the ethics of the people involved were shameful.
Another great example!
Good point
Government, doing a job it wasn't asked to do, and doing it badly.
Remove them from the equation and let things settle out amongst the shareholders.
Not to mention the mainstream media in 2000 declaring that Gore had won Florida while the polling places in the Panhandle were still open (Central time zone)—that has been estimated to have cost Bush 10,000 votes of people who went home rather than waiting in line because they thought it was over. Without that we wouldn’t have had Gore’s battle to win the electoral votes of Florida over the next five weeks.
We really should get together before either of us is.... ummm... dead.
Yeah, but not a word about NBC falsifying 911 tapes to incite a race war.
When, oh WHEN, will this gentrified corrupt zombie going to FINALLY lie down?
>>>Why does the FCC have any regulatory authority over cable? It’s not radio spectrum, it’s privately owned wiring.
The FCC has jurisdiction because those private “pipes” can leak - and cause issues for users of over the air spectrum... and congress gave FCC additional jurisdiction under the commerce clause... not that I agree or disagree with that - it is what it is.
So their attempts at appeasement of the Left shows the left that maybe Fox doesn’t have good character?
If they are pulled by this Communist, he should be the first casualty of a new civil war.
I'm serious.
The First Amendment is there for a reason. And so is the Second.
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