Monday, July 21, 2003
: Powell to exit FCC? muses the NY Post. I envision him overlooking the smoldering mess that is the currently embattled media ownership policy are in and saying "My work here is done." The good quote here is "Possible successors include [...] Kevin Martin, a FCC commissioner who has clashed with Powell over policy decisions." If he clashed with Powell, he can't be all bad. The FCC is supposed to ensure that the use of the public resource known as the broadcast spectrum is used for the common good. The airwaves belong to everyone. That's not just leftist sloganeering, it's the core ideal of the existing system. But, you wouldn't know it by Powell's policies.
