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When the government shutdown looked like a foregone conclusion, Federal Trade Commission officials on the agenda for the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council’s annual conference in New York had to cut their attendance short Monday night. (One was even told she needed to make sure she removed the yogurt from the agency refrigerator.) Like others serving in the federal government, FTC-ers were told to hightail it back to Washington to prepare for the shutdown.
While consumers fretted over how the blackout might impact the economy, the FTC and the Federal Communications Commission—agencies that regulate the advertising and telecommunications and media businesses—took the allotted four hours Tuesday morning to execute plans put into place last Friday when the blackout loomed.
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