Re:Re:Wired.com on Reversing Consolidation

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 10:50 PM 1/8/2003, Dave Faneuf wrote:
>---------- Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
> >Given the legal climate, the rule will almost certainly fall if the
> >FCC ever fails to grant a waiver, so Chairman Powell is right to
> >suggest that it should be repealed entirely.  I would further suggest
> >that it is actually in the public interest to allow newspapers and
> >broadcasters to combine operations.
> >-GAWollman
>
>Dave writes:
>I think your logic given the current climate is sound, however I would 
>disagree that combining local newspapers and local broadcast outlets would 
>be in the public interest.  I see it as allowing a single company to 
>control, not only news coverage and content but advertising rates.  wasn't 
>there an example of this discussed several months? ago on this very list 
>in which a GOP lawmaker was up in arms because a firm that controlled 
>coverage in his congressional district was causing problems for him or one 
>of his children running for office?
>df

Dick Armey in Texas, wasn't it?



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