Broadcasting & Cable - December 9, 2007

National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow has taken off the gloves. The face of the nation's biggest cable operators says flatly that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is on a vendetta to hurt the cable industry. That's not the sort of rhetoric lobbyists usually direct toward powerful government officials who control their fates.

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