President Bush has named Kevin J. Martin, one of the Federal Communication Commission's leaders in the crackdown on indecency, to succeed the agency's outgoing chairman, Michael K. Powell, the Washington Post reported today.
According to the report, Martin, 38, is one of the FCC's three Republican commissioners and has been considered the front-runner to head the agency, which is the government's chief regulator of the media and telecommunications industries.
The FCC under Martin is likely to be more active on indecency than under Powell, who proposed more than $4 million in fines over the past four years, more than all other former FCC chairmen combined, the report said.
"Mr. Martin has consistently advocated expanded government regulation of broadcast program content," Jonathan Rintels, executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, told the newspaper.
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