Portland Press Herald article on Media Consolidation

[Daniel Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Laurence" <mlaurence@mindspring.com>
To: "Daniel Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Cc: "SteveOrdinetz" <steveord@bit-net.com>; 
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Portland Press Herald article on Media Consolidation


> I'm confused.  The man who wants to put the Seattle Post Intellligencer 
> out of business and run a newspaper monopoly in Seattle, and who wants to 
> enable monopoly newspapers to own TV in their own market, thus controlling 
> the top two sources of news in a community, is opposed to consolidation in 
> the media?  How's that?

Read the story -- he is against newspapers owning TV in their market.  My 
point was that is probably because it limits his potential competition.