[EAS] Authority to form State Emerg. Comm. Committees

[Barry Mishkind]

At 10:42 AM 3/3/2011, Richard Rudman wrote:
>My take: It may be more of a reverse turf battle. Neither FEMA or the FCC seem willing to deal head-on with a situation that is at its heart a local and state issue. 
        
        On certain levels that makes sense, but on other
        levels, we are back to issuing Rules, finable Rules,
        without considering how stations really operate,
        and being on Mt. Olympus, never clarifying anything.
        
        I will note one point I made in my editorial this week:
        all too often, when you spend the time and effort 
        to seek out an answer, the best you will get is
        "it was addressed in a matter sometime."  Rather
        than provide simple answers to common questions,
        the FCC staff seems to prefer stations patronize
        the DC Communications Law firms. 
        
        That is not fair to honest operators in small 
        markets who should not be spending money
        to reinvent wheels - to get information that
        should be available easily.

        ... or am I wrong and every station (other than 
        the ones where I have worked) actually has
        para-legals on staff to research and report
        on all these things?