FCC Strategic Goals, Where is Diversity?

[Commentary] Despite the Federal Communications Commission’s assurance that diversity, in all of its forms – “viewpoint, outlet, program, source, and minority and female ownership diversity” – is a key policy goal, the FCC’s lack of action and the resulting decline of minority ownership illustrate that diversity is should be a much higher priority. One of the FCC’s strategic goals is to ensure its continual improvement, and a subset of that goal is to “[c]reate and sustain an organizational culture that encourages diversity, innovation, accountability, and continual improvement.” One of the ways in which the FCC could reach this goal is to make diversity a strategic goal and to set benchmarks for progress. It is past time for the FCC to stop dancing around diversity. The FCC should evaluate its process for furthering diversity and begin implementing real change.