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The storm began over letters McCain wrote on behalf of Paxson Communications, one of the nation's largest broadcast groups, which wanted to buy a license to a Pittsburgh TV station. Paxson has a stake in 72 stations and 51 affiliates that carry its family-oriented programming. Pittsburgh is the...
To control the damage, McCain's campaign team canceled a Florida fund raiser given by Paxson's chairman and released more than 1,500 pages of letters McCain wrote as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee to agencies under the committee's jurisdiction. That was intended to prove that even...
Did McCain cross an ethical line? McCain insists that with Paxson he merely sought some kind of timely action on the license, not approval. In a handful of cases, he did ask regulators to satisfy a company's request for specific action, though defenders say the Senator was acting in...
But McCain's letters are not the only work he's done on behalf of Paxson and other broadcasters. In a little-noticed move last June, McCain tried to attach to a telecommunications bill a provision that would have made it easier for broadcast groups to own more than one...
Do they have kids? That's what we always wanted to know when a moving van pulled up in my old neighborhood. Back then, the arrival of the Clintons would have prompted other questions. Is she married? Then where's her husband? And who are all those tall men in...