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Cable Chief Slams FCC Chief

Alan Breznick writes on Light Reading:

Lashing out at cable's chief regulator, National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) president Kyle McSlarrow blasted the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday for what he termed its "micromanagement" of communications policy and "fundamental misunderstanding" of the cable industry.

In particular, McSlarrow, a former high-ranking federal official appointed by President Bush, took aim at FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a fellow Bush appointee. Using some of the harshest language that an NCTA president has reserved for an FCC chairman in recent memory, McSlarrow stopped just short of calling Martin a blatant hypocrite, as well as a traitor to the Bush Administration cause of open markets and government deregulation.

posted by Fergie @ 12/20/2006 10:28:00 AM