Credit for this story ultimately should go to blogger Jeff Jarvis. [buzzmachine.com] Jarvis is a longtime journalist, former TV critic, and currently head of the internet division of a major U.S. media company. He filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the FCC's data and followed it up with a searing analysis [buzzmachine.com].
Jarvis is a professional, but anyone can do this. Dig in and report. Many hands make for light work, and all that.
"Jarvis tried to earn his math spurs this fall by asserting that he filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FCC on the fined Fox show "Married by America." Of the 159 complaints he said he was sent, only three count - because there were two original letter writers and the rest followed the form of a complaint from the Parents Television Council.
Perhaps Mr. Jarvis doesn't know this, but I know this, and will charge here publicly: the FCC is lying in a deliber
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Credit where credit is due (Score:5, Informative)
Jarvis is a professional, but anyone can do this. Dig in and report. Many hands make for light work, and all that.
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"Jarvis tried to earn his math spurs this fall by asserting that he filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FCC on the fined Fox show "Married by America." Of the 159 complaints he said he was sent, only three count - because there were two original letter writers and the rest followed the form of a complaint from the Parents Television Council.
Perhaps Mr. Jarvis doesn't know this, but I know this, and will charge here publicly: the FCC is lying in a deliber