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Los Angeles Times: FCC Accused of Unfairly Aiding Some Firms (10/3/07) by Jim Puzzanghera
If not the most surprising headline in the history of the world, this piece does provide gruesome details of how "congressional investigators have found some companies and trade groups have received special treatment" from the regulatory body that is "supposed to treat every group equally... from giant phone companies to small consumer advocates."FCC officials tipped them off to confidential information about when regulators planned to vote on important issues—a clear violation of agency rules that provided an unfair lobbying advantage, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office released today. Other interested parties—generally consumer and public-interest groups—did not get such favorable treatment, the report said.
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