Congress May Overturn FCC's Media Consolidation Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 17, 2003 @03:49PM 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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Re: What the fuck... by daveinthesky · 2003-07-17 19:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

please mod parent up. Vote DEAN or whatever democrat runs in 2003. We never elected bush in the first place, and having him re-elected is just salt onto the wounds of smart americans and the international community. honestly, greens, libertarians, etc. are just votes wasted. Did anyone else notice that the california clean-air mandate was toppled by oil/car business friendly bush? does anyone else care about our fuckin AIR? p.s. dean voted against the war