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House Committee Issues BuzzFeed Top 10 List to Oppose In-Flight Phone Calls

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: A House Transportation Committee took to BuzzFeed to push for a ban on in-flight voice calls as the FCC takes up the issue. BuzzFeed/House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure

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Kudos to the house panel for the humor and savvy in leveraging BuzzFeed, but the chairman's opposition to in-flight voice calls is based on pandering and misinformation about a service that has worked without incident on international airlines for years.

You can be certain that upcoming House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure hearings won't be discussing bowel movements or gum chewing sounds, but the panel took to BuzzFeed and cited these subjects in its post on the Top 10 Phone Conversations You Really Don't Want to Hear on A Plane. How often do congressional committee create top 10 lists, especially ones as ludicrous as this one, using gifs on BuzzFeed of Miley Cyrus, Johnny Depp, and George C. Scott, among others, all supposedly in support of committee chairman Bill Shuster's

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