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Being put on hold, that doesnt sound terribly comforting to certainly owners of newsrooms and media organizations across the country. what can you tell us what might happen if it does come back? >> so, part of the reason why i was supportive of the study getting suspended is that the fcc made clear that neither this study nor future study would involve asking anyone, media owners, news directors or journalists about the news philosophy or anything to do with editorial judgment. just like a baseb...

Was this idea ever even voted on by the commission? >> it was not. >> who came up with this idea? do you have any idea? >> thats one of the questions that i have, but unfortunately we dont have any insight into the process by which the study came about. but the good news is, going forward, current chairman wheeler announced that any study that fcc does in any of these markets is not going to require media owners, news directors or journalists to answer any of these kind of intrusive questions ab...

Organization, at its word? >> i certainly think its a positive step for the fcc to instruct the contractor to remove any questions about news philosophy, editorial judgment, and to keep the government out of the newsroom. my preference would be not to do the study at all so it doesnt relate to our purpose which is reporting to congress on barriers to entry. as i said, this is a positive step and the devil is going to be in the details when the study is actually implemented. >> is there not an in...

Does that tell you about american life where a right winç blogger with no editorial control, no editorial judgment or ethics is able to smear somebody and have a major television network put that on their website within minutes and throw it out there without any editorial judgment or ethics at all, perhaps even a motive, a negative motive, smear this black woman and then have an administration led by an african-american somewhere down the chain of command, apparently now at the cabinet level, s...

For the fcc. was this idea ever even voted on by the commission? >> it was not. >> who came up with this idea? do you have any idea? >> thats one of the questions that i have, but unfortunately we dont have any insight into the process by which the study came about. but the good news is, going forward, current chairman wheeler announced that any study that fcc does in any of these markets is not going to require media owners, news directors or journalists to answer any of these kind of intrusive...