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Subject: F.C.C. Chief Talks of Frustration and Surprise
September 22, 2003
F.C.C. Chief Talks of Frustration and Surprise
By STEPHEN LABATON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 - With a hurricane bearing down on the nation's
capital late last week, Michael K. Powell, the embattled chairman of
the Federal Communications Commission, was in an expansive mood about
the political storm that has engulfed him in recent months.
In a wide-ranging telephone interview Thursday from his home in
Northern Virginia, Mr. Powell mused inconclusively about how much
longer he would be at the agency. Alternately frustrated, assertive
and resigned, he acknowledged the sharp political skills of
opponents who have waged a campaign to derail the new media ownership
rules, which have become the most important regulations of Mr.
Powell's tenure. But he also sounded surprised that he had become
a focal point of the debate.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/22/business/media/22MIKE.html