The Federal Communications Commission announced that the second public hearing on media ownership issues will be held in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, December 11, 2006.
At the Commission's first public hearing in Los Angeles, the FCC heard from a large number of citizens about the current state of the media and specific issues facing that local market. Similarly, this second hearing will provide an opportunity for those in the Nashville area to broadly discuss media ownership issues as well as those of concern to their community.
"Issues like telecom, surveillance, copyright and patents are too controversial, too intricate or both for such a short session," said Will Rodger, public policy director for the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include Google, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. "Congress, in the meantime, has a slew of appropriations bills to pass, and those could take up all the time they have left."
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