[BC] Public File proceeding

[Mike Erickson]

The public file is the last outpost of accountability.

I have to laugh at the comments filed on behalf of Montclair
Communications.  Poor slob spent 20 hours LAST YEAR on maintaining the
public file.  Someone else spends an hour a week. The grand total.  70 hours
PER YEAR.  Comes out to about 19 MINUTES PER DAY.

The lack of accountability is one of the reasons broadcasting finds itself
in the state it's in today.  A hands off, lazy approach to everything has
allowed it to fall, like a house, into a state of disrepair.

I don't care if nobody shows up to see it... IF a broadcaster maintains an
accurate public file, it shows their fitness as a license holder.

RUNNING A RADIO STATION IS NOT EASY PEOPLE.  Things in life aren't supposed
to be or it wouldn't be worth it.

=Mike Erickson=

On 6/12/06, David Tillotson <dtlaw at starpower.net> wrote:
>
> Scott, I hope you will file comments, and get others to do so as
> well.  It's
> going to take an outpouring of support to get the FCC to act because (i)
> it
> is a money machine for them (though many of us know not to pay fine unless
> and until a US atty tries to collect which is a rare event and (ii) the
> FCC
> apparently believes its own untested claims that the public file is a
> valuable public tool.
>
>