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Jesse Walker | 1.19.2007 1:58 PM

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Jack Shafer gives a concise summary of the case for scrapping the Federal Communications Commission.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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