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Congress May Overturn FCC's Media Consolidation Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giving-things-a-second-look dept.

Spril writes "A congressional committee voted yesterday to prevent the FCC from allowing even more consolidation of the media industry. The original ruling was covered on Slashdot. The committee attached the pro-consumer proposal to a bill funding the Justice and State departments for 2004. But the Bush administration has threatened to veto the funding because they support ever-larger corporations owning ever-bigger chunks of the spectrum that theoretically belongs to the public. Clear Channel may need to cough up some more money for their lobbyists."

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  1. Call me cynical, but... by Paladin144 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Is this congressional subcommittee merely playing populist politics because the veto is pretty much a foregone conclusion? I find it hard to believe these clowns are actually going to stand up to big business.

    Then again, I might just be a cynic at the ripe old age of 25.

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  2. ahhhh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "the Bush administration has threatened to veto the funding because they support ever-larger corporations owning ever-bigger chunks of the spectrum that theoretically belongs to the public"

    Now I remember why I read slashdot, for the non-biased even-handed reporting. Now when are we going to see a mention of Fritz Hollings' membership in the democratic party?

  3. Consumers? Oh Christ I thought we were Citizens by tjstork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Silly me.

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  4. please mod this up... by imaginate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...It's dead on. last I heard, the US legislature was supposed to support its *citizens* regardless of how (or if) they spend money.

    We are not money-spending machines, and that is not our sole duty to our country - we are humans who live here, and this country is *our* country, as it says in our constitution...