NB: Previous LawMeme coverage is here.
FCC's regulations of mass media are subject to modification. Reuters has published a summary update of the debate.
As reported previously, the rules concern the permitted size of national television audiences; local concentration of television and radio stations; common ownership of TV and radio stations, and common ownership of TV stations and newspapers.
On the one hand are arguments that excessive corporate control of mass media reduces programming diversity and drowns out smaller voices. One coalition, for instance, wants 25% of network primetime to consist of independent shows. On the other (read: corporate) are arguments that television programming is very diverse, that there are more cable and satellite broadcasters than there were when the rules were originally created, and that the FCC therefore ought to "abandon the media ownership regulatory scheme in its entirety".