It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.

Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.

Thank you.

 

Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.

 

FCC trying to relax media ownership rules?

page: 1
0

log in

join
share:

posted on Jan, 10 2008 @ 02:34 PM
link   
I came across this on google news yesterday but I wasn't able to really dig anything specific up on it... was wondering if any of you guys had heard about any new legislations that would act to relax media ownership regulations?




Source
Cantwell promises swift response in Senate if FCC relaxes media ownership rules
In a strongly worded letter sent today to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, Senator Maria Cantwell and a bipartisan group of her colleagues warned that any action to relax media ownership rules and open the floodgates to consolidation would be met with a swift response in Congress.

Cantwell didn't mince words in her announcement:

Congress is certainly not afraid to take action against the FCC...Time and again we’ve told the FCC that if it moves forward without adequate feedback from the public, there will be consequences. There are consequences to ignoring the American public’s right to participate fully in the rule making process. In the Senate, we’re going to make sure that if we have to pass legislation stopping the FCC, we will.
Martin's proposal, introduced less than a hundred hours after the FCC's final hearing in Seattle on the matter, includes a rollback of the rule that prevents corporate cross ownership of newspapers and television stations in the same market.


I thought corporate consolidation of the mass media was pretty much already a done deal, how much more power can we hand these people?



new topics
 
0

log in

join