Tuesday marks the third anniversary of Kevin Martin's tenure as Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Ars Technica Blogger Matthew Lasar reports that, according to a source at the FCC, some members of the agency's staff plans to protest the occasion by wearing black.From Ars Technica:
By the way something, when Lasar asked his source why the staff decided to protest, he was told, "because this place is hell."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."
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