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Jones also dismissed assertions in The BostonHerald's article that Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) had been asked to withdrawfrom the probe several weeks ago and thenreinstated several hours later...
Nowhere on any college application I have ever seen is moral fiber defined as a criterion for admission. And how does one measure moral fiber anyway? Should academic institutions allow their interviewers to probe 17 year-old psyches and, in one hour or less, form opinions on their characters? Are any of these interviewers qualified to do this, or are they acting like armchair psychologists at the students' expense? And why are colleges doing this anyway? Presumably they are choosing candidates foe academia and not the priesthood...
...moment in an investigation that has largely escaped public notice, unfolding in a bureaucratic arena more typically characterized by paper than passion. But nothing about this investigation is ordinary-not the players, not the stakes, not even the FCC's behavior. One of its own commissioners publicly attacked the probe, branding certain actions "misguided." Even the form of the investigation is unusual, with the commission's lawyers demanding documents from throughout Murdoch's U.S. empire and ordering depositions from Murdoch, former Fox Inc. chairman Barry Diller and a dozen other current and former Fox officials...
...investigation has frozen $1 billion in Fox deals to sell and buy TV stations, all meant to help the upstart network catch up with the Big Three. The probe threatens to kill one of these deals, the $38 million takeover of an nbc affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The FCC's investigation also forced Murdoch to place into trusteeship two powerful stations he bought under an option included as part of his $500 million investment last year in New World Communications, the deal that won Fox a dozen new affiliates-mostly from CBS -- in some of America's biggest...
...machinations of an embittered rival. To others it is a David-vs.-Goliath story in which an obscure Washington attorney (named David, in fact) "took a swing in the dark and hit someone on the chin," as one media lawyer describes it. Still others see the probe as a case study in how companies can abuse the regulatory process. It is nearing its climax just as Congress prepares to jettison a battery of obsolete media regulations and launch an era of explosive competition...