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Cooper, Mark. "Junk Science And Administrative Abuse in the Effort of the FCC to Eliminate Limits on Media Concentration" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 21, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-06-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p233118_index.html>

Cooper, M. N. , 2008-05-21 "Junk Science And Administrative Abuse in the Effort of the FCC to Eliminate Limits on Media Concentration" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2010-06-06 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p233118_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of a pattern of administrative abuse at the Federal Communications Commission in the conduct of research during it attempt to lift limits on media ownership and allow greater media consolidtation. It provides a detailed road map to the manipulation of scientific analysis in an administration that had a checkered record across a number of areas of scientific inquiry – offering a systematic framework for analyzing the research process and an accounting of the policy, research and legal costs of abuse of the research process. The abuse involved suppression of contrary research results, narrowing of research questions, biasing of research design, manipulation of peer review, and ultimately a cover up. The purpose was to create a record to support further deregulation of media ownership, but the results-driven nature of the research produced studies that were not only tainted, but methodologically weak – nothing less than junk science. From the policy perspective, the studies missed obvious alternative explanations or interpretations of the data, ignored broader implications of the research for public policies, played down the role of market concentration, failed to analyze market level effects and narrowed the range of variables used to measure policy relevant outcomes. From the research perspective, the manipulation of the peer review process resulted in the publication of research with fundamental flaws including questionable assumptions, unrepresentative samples, poorly defined or missing variables, and improperly specified statistical models. From the legal perspective, the Administrative Procedures Act, the Information Quality Act, and criminal laws may have been violated.

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