Katrina Relief Leads to Some Bending of Rules

The wake of Katrina has convinced some regulators that the time has come to break, or at least bend, some rules to help speed assistance to the victims of the storm. For example, because so many stations were off the air, the Federal Communications Commission suspended rules prohibiting educational radio and television stations from airing commercial programming. The Bush administration did not give the agencies any formal marching orders on how to proceed, though it said it is working with agencies to expedite relief initiatives. But some say the disaster should not be an excuse to push aside important regulatory protections.
[SOURCE: Washington Post]