:: Deregulators... mount up. ::

Friday, May 09, 2003

The FCC is planning to reduce restrictions on media ownership in local markets, which conceivably could (and, if the expansion of Clear Channel et al over the past 7 years is any indication, will) result in monopolies for small and medium-sized markets - every source of information, from newspapers to radio stations, to local TV affiliates, could be controlled by one company. And this is on top of the reductions passed in 1996 which allowed the aforementioned Clear Channel, along with other conglomerates, to start along the path of media hegemony.

Lessig's all over this (here and here), as well as Tom Tomorrow and Mediageek.

If you wish, you can sign this petition, but considering the current administration's tendancy to ignore well, everyone, I fear it's futile.

Posted by morland @ 02:03 PM

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