U.S. Federal Communications Commission [3] (FCC) chair Kevin Martin [4] has launched investigations into two reports on media ownership by FCC staff that were never released. One study [5] found that local ownership of TV stations correlates with more news coverage. The other study [6] found that "while there was a 5.9 percent increase in the number of radio stations in the country between March 1996 and March 2003, there was a 35 percent decrease in the number of radio owners," according to Senator Barbara Boxer [7], who recently made public copies of both studies. "I, too, am concerned about what happened to these two draft reports," Martin wrote Boxer. Martin launched his own investigation, asked the FCC's Inspector General to conduct a separate inquiry, and promised to include the studies "as part of the open localism and media ownership proceedings" addressing whether the agency should allow further consolidation of media ownership.