RE: WBUR takes on Clear Channel

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

I guess my least favorite would be NPR

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Mark
> Laurence
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: BRI; Brian Vita
> Subject: Re: WBUR takes on Clear Channel
> 
> 
> On 1 Apr 2003 at 7:38, Brian Vita wrote:
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> How is it different?  You're focused on two cable networks which are 
> relatively small parts of their corporate parents.  As Dan said, there's 
> nothing intrinsically wrong with a corporation taking a point of view 
> and expressing it on its channels.  
> 
> But what if they own most of the channels?  Choose your least favorite 
> news organization and imagine that its owners bought the Globe, 
> channels 4, 5, 25, 38, and 68, all the Infinity radio stations, all the 
> Entercom stations, CNN, MSNBC, and half the other cable stations, 
> DirecTV, many of the major magazines, and controlled half the 
> websites where people normally go for news.  It might be a little tough 
> to hear your point of view if you had to listen to this detested 
> heavyweight corporation speaking with one voice on all those stations 
> and outlets.
> 
> We're halfway there now.  The proposed FCC regulations could create a 
> media world that looks just like that.
> 
> Mark Laurence
>