Re: WBUR takes on Clear Channel

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

> On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 08:17  PM, Dan Billings wrote:
>
> >> Here & Now on Tuesday 4/1/03 will have story about accusations that
> >> Clear
> >> Channel management is forcing their stations to take a pro-Iraq-war
> >> stance
> >> in their programming.
> >
> > What's wrong with the owner of a broadcast station (or a printed
> > publication, for that matter) deciding editorial policy for their
> > property?
>
> Nothing.  But it adds fuel to the arguments that mega-corporations
> should not be allowed to grow even bigger.  If one corporation could
> own half the radio stations in every major market in the country - and
> the daily newspaper too - it would have one heck of an overpowering
> voice.
>
How is this any different from the Clinton bias that CNN had or the Bush
bias that Fox has?

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