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FCC takes calls to pull Fox's broadcast licenses 'very seriously'
The Hill ^ | 5/9/12 | Brendan Sasso

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crew; fcc; fcclicense; foxnews; genachowski
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1 posted on 05/10/2012 9:36:13 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
Attempts to silence the libtards opposition is not sufficient - they must be DESTROYED.
2 posted on 05/10/2012 9:39:22 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: ColdOne

Yeah, sure they do.

Can you imagine them actually doing it?

Not until AFTER they declare martial law.


3 posted on 05/10/2012 9:40:11 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: ColdOne
One of the few networks that dares to point out Obamas' faults. Well yeah, need to get them off the air for sure.

/s

4 posted on 05/10/2012 9:40:12 AM PDT by BipolarBob ("Oh no, I'm not sick, well I'm not physically sick anyway. Mentally I'm sick beyond any doctor's abi)
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To: ColdOne

I dare them to do it.


5 posted on 05/10/2012 9:44:11 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: ColdOne

Time to consider pulling the certification of the Democrat Party.

I said consider as in look into the matter.

Theft of taxpayer monies, lying is first amendment protected, but at a certain point it’s lying, deliberate organized fraud of donations/vote, treason, etc. All need “to be looked into”.

The Democrat anything to win activities have crossed the line, and it’s time to call them on it.


6 posted on 05/10/2012 9:44:19 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: ColdOne
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.

Undoubtedly horrific behavior by the News Corp., but probably about as horrific as NBC secretely rigging trucks to explode in an attempt to bankrupt a company.

And definitely not as bad as CBS knowingly presenting forged documents as genuine in an attempt to swing a US Presidential election.

This is not a road the networks really want to go down.

7 posted on 05/10/2012 9:45:06 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ColdOne

Let’s look at those clandestine tapes made of PBS when they thought they were getting a donation from Muslim Brotherhood.


8 posted on 05/10/2012 9:45:54 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: ColdOne
He noted that the law requires that the FCC only grant broadcast licenses to people of "good character."


9 posted on 05/10/2012 9:46:38 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: ColdOne
I hope the FCC yanks Fox's license before the election.

Please do it, FCC.

It will help Ubama's reelection chances tremendously.

Honest!

10 posted on 05/10/2012 9:46:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Seriously? You're that dense?)
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To: ColdOne

TAR. FEATHERS.


11 posted on 05/10/2012 9:48:09 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: ColdOne

Why does the FCC exist? Where in Art 1 Sec 8 does it give the FedGov this power?

Wouldn’t an organization like the IEEE handle stuff like licensing a lot better?


12 posted on 05/10/2012 9:48:43 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: Nachum

Ping.


13 posted on 05/10/2012 9:49:09 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: ColdOne

So, other networks have been caught making stuff up out of whole cloth (i.e. “fake but true”), but they’re fine.

Fox actually hires a few slightly-right-of-center commentators, and a few centrists, and they no longer “of good character?”

Go figure.


14 posted on 05/10/2012 9:49:51 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: ColdOne

Just try it, FCC.


15 posted on 05/10/2012 9:54:14 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Dead Corpse

” 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.” “

Well, there goes MSNBC,CNN,ABC,CBS,ABC....


16 posted on 05/10/2012 9:54:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Dead Corpse

“Wouldn’t an organization like the IEEE handle stuff like licensing a lot better?”

An IEEE janitor has more technical qualifications than any Obamaloon appointee to the FCC...(actually more quals than the Obamaloon itself).


17 posted on 05/10/2012 9:55:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Cheerio
How about cBS, attempting to influence a presidential election by broadcasting absolutely false and manufactured evidence against Bush? and NBC naw I can't go there
18 posted on 05/10/2012 9:56:02 AM PDT by Foolsgold (L I B Lacking in Brains)
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To: bolobaby

What if they do, then what?


19 posted on 05/10/2012 9:57:06 AM PDT by elephant
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To: ColdOne
I'm not very impressed or worried. What is the FCC supposed to say? "Yeah, we took the calls, and we trashcanned them without even looking into them."

They GOTTA say stuff like this. Nothing will come of it, of course.

20 posted on 05/10/2012 9:57:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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