Re: Opponet of FCC rules engages in media consolidtaion

["rogerkirk" <rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net>]

"Dan Billings" wrote:

>Former radio guy Al Diamon now writes a political column for the 
>Portland Phoenix.  In his column this week, he points out that while 
>the owners of  the Portland Press Herald campaign against FCC rules,
>they are engaging in the kind of media consolidation that they claim 
>to oppose by trying to buy weekly newspapers around Portland.

There must be an obvious and significant difference between the inherent danger in TV/Radio/Newsprint mergers and a business simply buying its direct competition.

If only I knew what it was.