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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
Bastion of confusion that it is, the FCC has left us grasping at straws more than once when it comes to making sense of their actions. Take the issue of à la carte cable, for instance. Former chairman Michael Powell was opposed to the idea of allowing customers to simply pick and chose cable channels on a one-by-one basis, but the new Kevin Martin FCC has been toying with the idea for a few months. In the Powell era, we were told that the perceived benefits of à la carte were just that: perception, but nothing that would pan out in reality. Roughly a year later, the FCC started to change its tune, questioning whether the Powell-era investigation was correct. Today the FCC has released their newer, updated report.
In particular, the Further Report describes a number of errors in the Booz Allen Hamilton ("Booz Allen") Study that the Media Bureau relied upon to support the conclusion of the earlier report that à la carte is not economical. The Further Report finds that the 2004 report als...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: Bastion of confusion that it is, the FCC has left us grasping at straws more than once when it comes to making sense of their actions. Take the issue of à la carte cable, for instance. Former chairman Michael Powell was opposed to the idea of allowing customers to simply pick and chose cable channels on a one-by-one basis, but the new Kevin Martin FCC has been toying with the idea for a few months. In the Powell era, we were told that the perceived benefits of à la carte were just that: percepti... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
