extensive documents in probe:
See RCR Wireless News article at http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080313/SUB/840287178/1011/newsletter50
Related Ars Technica story at
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080313-congress-dons-rubber-glove-prepares-probe-of-fcc-chairman.html
Broadcasting & Cable article on same subject for editorial balance:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6518202.html?q=minority
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FCC insider: This place is hell;
silent protest planned
An excerpt:Full text atA super-politicized environment
It appears that a critical mass of FCC grunts are sick of what they experience as a super-politicized work life in which just about anything that they want to do has to get the go-ahead from the top, that being Kevin Martin. "Nothing happens in the Commission without the approval of the Chairman's office," my source told me. "It is incredible. We have become so political."
Do you have any sense of the logic of these directives from the Chair? I asked. "Nope," came the reply. "It seems as random as he got up this morning and ate his breakfast and just decided to do it."
Why are FCC employees upset about this? Not because they disagree with Kevin Martin's perspective on this or that FCC issue, but because, according to my source, he and his top subordinates demand that staff skip proper procedures and leapfrog various rules, even Congressional mandated rules, on a day-to-day level.
"In the past I may or may not have agreed with the outcome, but at least the proper procedures were followed. Now they tell us 'what are the media reform groups going to do: file a class action lawsuit? Just do it.' But ethically I have to sleep at night. It's not the decision, it's how the decision is reached. The situation has become arbitrary and capricious."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080316-fcc-insider-this-place-is-hell-silent-protest-planned.html
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