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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. Re:I've pretty much ... by jdcook · · Score: 2, Troll
    "If you want to know all about how the New York Times went from being an unbiast paper, the "paper of record", to a liberal cheerleader, I suggest you read the first chapter of a new book called "Off With Their Heads." A facinating read."

    Yeah, the Times is a real liberal paper all right. That's why they spent all that effort covering up Whitewater and why they've been so dogged in exposing the Bush administration's mendacity. Thank God that Dick Morris was able to take some time off from having fetish sex with prostitutes and is available to teach us what to think.

    What's that? You say it was the Times that owned the bogus Whitewater story? And that they bury their few stories about the Niger "documents" deep inside below the fold? Huh. Why that almost sounds "Fair and Balanced" enough for Faux News. If you want some better information about a biassed press, try reading Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? You might gain some perspective.

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  2. Re:I've pretty much ... by Malcontent · · Score: 1, Troll

    " Given up on Media anyway."

    If you want unbiased news your best bet is to look outside the country. Lucky for you english versions of most countries news outlets are available on the web.

    During our invasion of iraq the best place to get news was from New Zealand, Chinese, and russian news outlets. Even CNN asia was much less biased then CNN US. Too bad I don't speak arabic it would have been interesting to hear what al zereera was saying. Of course they were not allowed to broadcast in english in the US. Shows you how much we value free speech huh?

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