[IP] more onBroadcast Lobby Caught Red Handed With Red Herring

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Subject: Re: [IP] Broadcast Lobby Caught Red Handed With Red Herring
> To: dave@farber.net, ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
>
> The saddest part is that these "facts" were promoted by folks who claimed 
> to have engineering credentials.   Professionals like engineers should be 
> held accountable when they assert these "facts".   Lawyers may claim that 
> they cannot be held accountable for fabrications.  Not so 
> engineers.   Criminal or civil penalties for such fabrications are part of 
> the Professional Engineering licensing processes.   It's time for such 
> actions, IMHO.   If a CEO is liable for a deliberate fabrication of facts, 
> an engineer should be no less liable when testifying or lobbying in an 
> expert professional capacity upon which the public must rely.
>
> I do wonder, Dave, why none of the engineers and technologists at the FCC 
> at the time spoke out publicly on this point.   I don't know if the 
> Congress was advised that the "facts" upon which they were encouraged to 
> act (by NPR in particular, but all of NAB as well) were known to the FCC 
> staff to be bogus, as you suggest.
>
> I'm not suggesting that the FCC should do a "Tenet" and take the blame now 
> to protect Congress and the NAB, but it worries me that engineers colluded 
> in this fraud by commission and omission.

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