On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:03:54 -0400, D. Feldstein wrote:

Chairman Reed Hundt, an internationally recognized
authority on Communications Law, was instrumental
in dismantling the Old White Guard at the Commission
and appointing minorities & women to management
positions in the commission.

D. Feldstein

***The below space is reserved for Phil to bad
mouth Reed Hundt***

Reed Hundt didn't have the first clue on what communication law was,
is, or should be, as evidenced by how he raped the Field Operations
Bureau - the only hope that the agency had in preserving regulatory
compliance enforcement - while building up a very ineffective Cable
Bureau mired in words and theories that amounted to political
mumbo-jumbo. His field prior to coming to the Commission was
anti-trust and his appointment by Clinton had all the earmarks of
redemption of some political IOU.

He was, and is, all politics, as has been every chairman since Mad
Man Mark Fowler, certainly up to and including the present one. His
"internationally recognized authority" status and value as a partner
in his Chicago big-fee law firm is in the political and industry
contacts that he can make, not in knowledge of or insight into what
proper communications regulatory law should be. The monitoring
techs that he RIFfed (with the exception of one particular one) know
more about the realities of communication regulatory compliance than
he did.

And that's my personal opinion based on being there......

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane