Time to Send the Angels of the Public Interest Back In!

Now that we have a new FCC commissioner-to-be, I am wondering if we as a community should set the tone early, and send in the angels.

From Medialife Magazine in 2002:

"In 1998, FCC chairman Michael Powell, who was then a mere commissioner, gave a speech to the American Bar Association in which he talked about divining the public interest. In it, he said, "the night after I was sworn in, I waited all night for the angel of public interest to come to me, I waited and waited and waited, but she never appeared."

By the end of the speech, it becomes clear that he has no interest whatsoever in trying to grasp what the public interest is, or what the public really wants and what the role of a government agency is in that process."

During the egregious ownership hearings in 2002, that's exactly what the media change movement did. Dressed up in angel costumes, and went to the FCC.

Worked on the Third Circuit court!

Article here.