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GUEST: Adam Candeub, Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law

Last week, California Senator Barbara Boxer released a draft of a study by the Federal Communications Commission, showing that media consolidation leads to less local TV news coverage. Adam Candeub, a former lawyer with the FCC said FCC managers ordered the destruction of that report. Boxer’s office released a second study earlier this week on the radio industry which was also apparently shelved. Former FCC Chairman, Republican Michael Powell, under whom the studies were conducted, says he knew nothing about them. Boxer has asked the current FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, to conduct a formal investigation.

Read the full FCC Report here.

Adam Candeub recommends readers thanks Barbara Boxer for making the documents public:
Senator Barbara Boxer’s Los Angeles Office can be reached at:

312 N. Spring St. Suite 1748
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 894-5000
(213) 894-5042 fax

There will be an FCC Hearing in Los Angeles on October 3rd. The FCC has not yet announced the details of the event.