why media consolidation is NOT a good thing

[Dan Billings]

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From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
To: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; "Sean Smyth"
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Subject: RE: why media consolidation is NOT a good thing


>And in those "old
> days" a local station's most likely reason for pre-empting a network news
> broadcast would have been to present a local documentary or public-affairs
> show or even (at least in WCVB's heyday) a locally-produced entertainment
> show. (And the decision to pre-empt would likely have come with a lot of
> local management input, too.)

Those days were gone long before consolidation of ownership.