More on Media Consolidation
A few more links on the important FCC decision coming up in a few weeks (see our previous story for more). Common Cause has a good set of background information and advocacy. The Washington Post has a story about the decision, focusing on how independent television stations will be squeezed even harder. This article about ClearChannel is a useful primer about the future of mass media.
The reporters were not allowed to show anything that might make the US military look bad.
Instead they only showed happy iraquis who were waving american flags. Of course the american public was too stupid to ask where the iraqis got those american flags in the first place.
War is necrophilia.