Axing Newspaper Posting Rules Will Lead to Less Transparency, Says PNRC, NNA
Eliminating rules requiring licensees publish application notices in local newspapers will lead to information being disseminated less widely and to less transparency, said the Public Notice Resource Center and the National Newspaper Association in a Nov. 13 meeting with the…
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FCC Media Bureau, said a filing posted in docket 17-264 Wednesday. “Requiring licensees to publish notices in local newspapers is the only present mechanism preventing them from conducting the entire process largely outside of public view." Under current rules, notices are posted online and in newspapers, since most papers post notices from their print edition on the web, the groups said. “If providing increased notice to the public via the internet is one of the goals of the Commission’s 'media modernization' efforts, eliminating newspaper notice is clearly not the way to do it.”