Now that we have your attention, here's a weak story about how a senator leaned on a bureaucrat who wasn't doing his job in an agency that doesn't really do anything. This story wouldn't even be worth publishing if there wasn't a racy angle to wink at.

Is the average American even aware that one media company even needs the FCC's permission to buy another? Is anyone, anywhere unable to sleep at night for fear that someone at an federal agency is being robbed of their hard-earned bribe money?

the average americna will know about the fcc when all the sports football and basketball games of their favorite college team is not being broadcastsa d that this change is due to a private held cable compnay . I know that

Good point. While, again, there's certainly an "appearance" that "something" about this wasn't kosher, in the end the New York Times published a front-page story about routine constituent services. If it were *really* about anything else it would have been a more interesting story...but it wasn't.