Reply #7: He was right-hand man to M Powell at FCC, and responsible for overhauling [View All]

media ownership rules...... Yeah, he's a scumbag

http://www.cpb.org/about/corp/bios/exec/ferree.html

He was known as "The Enforcer"
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2003-05-11-ferree_x.htm

Now head of the Federal Communications Commission's media bureau, Ferree is perhaps the most colorful bureaucrat at the staid agency, and is still doing the dirty work. The square-jawed, 6-foot-6 Ferree, 42, who favors loud ties, plans today to deliver to the five commissioners his staff's 200-page recommendation for the most sweeping deregulation of media ownership rules in decades.

It is expected to propose letting media giants such as Viacom get bigger — and is likely to irk the FCC's Democratic minority and consumer advocates, who fear a loss of diversity and local voices.

The fireworks will be among the commissioners, who are to vote June 2 on the proposals, which largely reflect the views of Chairman Michael Powell. Yet Ferree — a libertarian intellectual — is quietly playing a central role because an appeals court struck down several FCC ownership caps as lacking legal basis. Ferree's document is expected to provide that basis and ensure the new, relaxed rules will hold up on appeal.