What's a government agency to do when its own research findings don't support its policy agenda? At the FCC, apparently the answer is to destroy the evidence. From the Associated Press:
The FCC ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.
The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) received a copy of the report "indirectly from someone within the FCC who believed the information should be made public," according to Boxer spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz.
Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that ''every last piece'' of the report be destroyed.
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