Constituents' E-Mail on XM Deal Not Well Received
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Kim Hart write in The Washington Post:
A check by The Washington Post of 60 people whose names were attached to identical, anti-merger e-mails instigated by the National Association of Broadcasters, a major opponent of the merger, produced mostly unanswered phone calls and recordings saying the phones were disconnected. Of the 10 people reached, nine said they never sent anything to the FCC, and only one said she remembered filling out something about Sirius but did not recall taking a position on a merger.More here.
The responses raise questions debated a lot in Congress and at federal agencies lately: Are the hundreds of millions of narrow-interest e-mails that deluge official Washington each year a useful measure of public sentiment? Are they even being sent by real people?
The torrent, made possible by Web lobbying techniques, is subverting the process it was meant to influence, some experts said.
posted by Fergie @ 11/21/2007 08:17:00 PM
1 Comments:
I would have expected this of NAB. Really comes as no surprise. I've beem a Sirius satellite radio subscriber since 2003 and love it.
Well worth the very affordable subscription cost. I will be purchasing my third subscription for a family member this Christmas.
Post a Comment
<< Home