It is encouraging that the FCC will finally be run by someone with the specific skills and experience to address the many challenges ahead – as opposed to the cronies who were installed solely to pursue the interests of Big Media and the friends of a corrupt White House. With his unique blend of business and governmental experience, Genachowski promises to provide the strong leadership we need.” This moment calls for bold and immediate steps to spur competition, foster innovation and breathe new life into our communications sector. “The challenges facing the next FCC are enormous - a vast digital divide, an open Internet in jeopardy, consolidated media ownership, newsrooms in economic freefall and entrenched industries invested in maintaining the status quo. Genachowski to put the president-elect’s plan into action.
We greatly look forward to working with Mr. We share Obama’s goals of creating a more diverse, democratic media system and providing fast, affordable, open Internet access for everyone. President-elect Obama has provided a clear roadmap of his media and technology priorities. “Under Julius Genachowski’s leadership, the FCC’s compass would point toward the public interest.
JULIUS GENACHOWSKI FREE
Josh Silver, executive director of the media reform group, Free Press, issued the following statement:
In that role he will have an opportunity to not only undue a lot of the damage done by Bush’s henchmen in the post, Michael Powell and Kevin Martin, but he can actually make progress toward a more competitive and diverse environment in the media community. He appears to be Barack Obama’s choice for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
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