Adelstein: Public Deserves to see studies

ADELSTEIN: PUBLIC DESERVES TO SEE STUDIES
[SOURCE: TVNewsday, AUTHOR: Harry Jessell]
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said that the agency has tarnished its reputation by not releasing studies that might contradict a "predetermined" policy outcome. “It undercuts our reputation as the expert agency if we whitewash studies that don't come up with the conclusions that are favored by the very media that we are charged with overseeing," the commissioner said during a teleconference this morning to trumpet the release of another study detailing the low percentages of female and minority ownership of TV stations. "I am very concerned that taxpayers' dollars are used to fund these studies and, if they don't reach a predetermined outcome, the taxpayers never have an opportunity to see them," Commissioner Adelstein said. "We deserve a full accounting of all studies that are in progress and the studies that have been done so that the public is made aware of the factual data and analysis that has been done by our excellent staff," he said. "We can hopefully restore our reputation as the expert agency and not be seen as one that is politicizing the outcome of what should be objective studies."
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2006/09/20/daily.8/