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Sources: Rivera To Head Obama's FCC Transition Team - 11/5/2008 4:26:00 PM - Multichannel News
Partner At Wiley, Rein Firm, Previously Served At The Agency By Ted Hearn -- Multichannel News, 11/5/2008 4:26:00 PM Washington -- President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name Washington, D.C. lawyer Henry Rivera, a Democrat, to head a transition team focused on the Federal Communications ...
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Is Obama's New FCC Transition Head Talk Radio's 'Executioner'?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... warns that Barack Obama is signaling his designs on conservative talk radio with the rumored appointment of former FCC Commissioner Henry Rivera as the head of his FCC transition team: ...

Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio
American Thinker — ... . This report complained that there was too much conservative talk on the radio because of "the absence of localism in American radio markets" and urged the FCC to "[e]nsure greater local accountability over radio licensing. Podesta's choice as head of the Federal Communications Commission's transition team is Henry Rivera . Since 1994, Rivera has been chairman of the ...

'Localism' and Obama's use of Alinksy's method to assault free speech
Hyscience — ... Podesta's choice as head of the Federal Communications Commission's transition team is Henry Rivera. Since 1994, Rivera has been chairman of the Minority Media Telecommunications Council.  This ...

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