F.C.C. Chairman: Comcast "Packing" No Big Deal

The Federal Communications Commission acknowledges that Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, paid people to attend last week's public meeting about net neutrality at Harvard -- but don't expect an investigation into the company's tactics.

"It's usually more interesting for people to attend on their own without being paid to do so, but we're not investigating anything," F.C.C. Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters during a press briefing yesterday.

Last week, Comcast told Portfolio.com that it had paid people to show up at the Harvard hearing in order to save seats for Comcast employees.

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Comments

[Shaddup]

Of course it's fine for Martin to let Comcast stuff seats, because they're a big corporation, and that's really who should be running the media in America, especially now that we're an oligarchy. Bush govt. at its best. So help me, these people are stealing our freedoms slowly one by one. Big media is dumbing down and ruining any hope America ever had of an intelligent population, while robbing us of our own voices.

[tililek]

Since Mr. Martin pays attention only to his master, why should his opinion carry any attention? He cares not one whit about the people of America as he has so amply proven, and I can only hope that as soon as there is a change of administration he is out, and possibly his decisions are immediately rescinded.