While press coverage is always welcome, and while most trade reporters are thorough and careful in their reporting, occasionally one must address a situation where a reporter has wildly misunderstood what was said.  That is the case with the Broadband Breakfast article concerning my remarks during an open webinar put on by the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition on January 29, 2020.

The webinar entitled “Unfinished Business in the RHC Program” focused on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rural Health Care (RHC) program reform order from last summer.  Having drafted one of the petitions for reconsideration of that order filed last fall, I am on record with certain criticisms of the Commission’s reform effort, which I recounted during the webinar.  Unfortunately, those criticisms were garbled in the Broadband Breakfast account of my remarks.  We contacted the reporter at Broadband Breakfast multiple times and requested corrections which included misspellings of my name.  It does not appear any corrections were made.