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Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-find-true-disinterest dept.

Anonymous writes "Ars Technica has discovered that one of the Obama transition team members advising on the digital TV transition has a conflict of interest that would benefit WiMAX carrier Clearwire over Verizon. 'Barack Obama's call to delay the DTV transition would affect not only millions of analog TV viewers, but also powerful companies with a vested interest in the changeover date — including at least one with an executive on Obama's transition team.'"

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  1. Not really a transisiton team member by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Having RTFA...

    Salemme is not actually an adviser to Obama. He met with Senator Rockefeller and Tom Wheeler (one of Obama's many advisers) last week. He also donated some money to the Obama campaign. That appears to be the sum total of his involvement. Not very compelling evidence that he is behind the policy, if you ask me.

    The assertion that he is a transition team member appears to be outright false.