[BC] Delays hurting credibility?

[Reader]

Regarding Stern, the Washington Post writes;

The Federal Communications Commission, under Democratic Chairman Reed 
E. Hundt, took one year to determine that the radio routine violated 
the agency's indecency regulations. But nearly four years and two FCC 
chairmen later, in February 2001, the $6,000 fine was rescinded "due 
to passage of time," FCC records note.

The FCC's actions were hardly an aberration. A Washington Post 
analysis of all 92 known proposed indecency fines shows that the 
agency's record of policing the airwaves has been undermined by 
plodding investigations, insufficient fine amounts and inconsistent follow-up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902078.html




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