Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell says he doesn’t know a thing about the report on local news the FCC is accused of quashing. The study, conducted in 2004, showed that locally owned stations produced more local news than stations owned by out-of-town companies. A Powell spokeswoman said “He said he never saw the report, never heard of it until yesterday and never ordered it destroyed.” If the accusations are true, and the FCC tried to bury a report that was at odds with its own agenda, this is an outright scandal.
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