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...seven staff members focus that anger on the liberal topic du jour. One day, MoveOn's e-mail armada pushes a petition against the FCC's relaxing rules on media ownership; the next, a fund drive that brought in $1 million in 48 hours to support the Texas state senators who had fled the state to stop a G.O.P. redistricting plan. There are no membership dues, and gratification is as instant as a mouse click. "MoveOn is easily the largest political-action committee in the country," says Professor Michael Cornfield of George Washington University. "It's the Christian Coalition...
...change to Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulations will now allow cell phone owners to switch service providers without having to switch numbers— known as “number portability”—markedly reducing the inconvenience associated with switching carriers...
According to some, smaller providers will be put at an advantage following the FCC change...
...their part, the telecommunications companies have tried to get behind the FCC ruling despite the impact it is likely to have on their profits. The level of competition between cell phone carriers is set to increase as people “port” from one carrier to another, leading to substantial drops in the prices of cell phone minutes...
Every warm-blooded American knows the pleasure of collapsing in front of the warm glow of the television. I do it; you do it; and so does Michael K. Powell, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), who, in an interview for The New York Times last Sunday, told reporters about the vast amount of TV he and his family watch. Citing several programs from “Dexter’s Laboratory” to “SpongeBob SquarePants” and his chronic use of TiVo, Powell claims, “we?...