Daily Archives: 09-06-05

You’re breaking up

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under digital, government, media, standards, urban

Robert LeSieur/Reuters: "A safety crew working to help David Gilliland out of his race car, which carried messages to promote a program by the Federal Communications Commission on the digital TV transition."

NYT (Labaton, “Millions Face Blank Screens in TV Switch,” 5 Jun ’09) quotes another Obamatron suggesting that Shrub’s administration had other priorities than, say, doing what government is supposed to do:

Michael J. Copps, the acting head of the Federal Communications Commission, said that the people most likely to lose reception are society’s most vulnerable — lower-income families, the elderly, the handicapped and homes where little or no English is spoken. The transition will also hit inner-city and rural areas hardest, he said. “We are much better prepared than we were in February, when the original transition was to have occurred, but there will nonetheless be significant disruptions,” Mr. Copps said in an interview. “In the past five months we’ve tried to accomplish what should have been done over the last four years.”

But 9/11! 9/11! 9/11!