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assess each market whenever a company proposes
to buy another property. Fellow Commissioner
Kevin Martin expressed concern over
incorporating complex mathematics versus
using “simple rules” to measure voices.”
Meanwhile, the Center for the Creative Community
notes that all this could be illegal. The
FCC’s plan to issue final rules in its media ownership
limits proceeding by June 2nd violates the
Regulatory Flexibility Act, writes the Small Business
Administration’s Office of Advocacy in a letter
to FCC Chairman Michael Powell. Prior to
issuing final rules, the FCC must first analyze the
impact of those rules on America’s small businesses
and then allow small businesses to comment
on that analysis.
“The SBA Office of Advocacy intervened after
a request by the Center for the Creative Community,
a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization providing
research, public education, and policy development
on behalf of the tens of thousands of individual
writers, directors, producers, performers,
and other talented people who give life to America’s
popular and literary works of art and entertainment.”
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APRIL 16: WAR WOWS
THEM IN THE HEARTLAND
I AM writing from the library of Washington
State University in Pullman, just up the road
from the wheat fields of Moscow, Idaho. I clicked
on to CNN this morning but got the wrong channel.
I was misled by the title “IRAQ: The Final
Days” at the bottom of the screen. It looked like
one of those familiar news graphics, but this one
SO, THIS IS VICTORY
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floated under a sermon by a Reverend Bill
Hagee, who was describing the war on Iraq as
the beginning of the apocalypse, raving and ranting
about the need to drive out Satan beginning
with Saddam (sounds like Sodom, doesn’t it?)
and praising President Bush who has a “backbone,
not a wishbone.” I realized that I was now
in a foreign country called the YOUnited States
where I came face to face with the evangelical
message that our Messiah from Midland has
unleashed. His audience loved it. For only $69,
you can buy all three videotapes blasting the UN,
the Nazis, the Commies and the Saddamites as
one. Hallelujah.
TIME Magazine must have been given an early
preview of his tapes because they simply put
Saddam on the same cover they used to
announce the demise of Adolph the fuhrer. What
a way to drive home the comparison that the
Bush Administration has been pounding into the
ground from day one.
The shark bite stories are back
YOU know the war is over when CNN starts
returning to shark bite stories, missing kids, and
the new Madonna video. (She, like many artists
was intimidated into sealing her lips and videos
on the war.) Happy Times are almost back again.
FORTUNE offers the case for “optimism,”
reporting that “Contrary to popular belief, 2002
was one of the most profitable years ever for corporate
America.” That should make you feel
much better. The Seattle Times was headlining
the bright profit picture announced by the hometown
heroes at Microsoft. In the back of the
paper, there is a report on boycotts worldwide
against Starbucks, another star in the firmament