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FCC's mass media (de)regulation
Posted by Paul Szynol on Friday, January 03 @ 01:25:39 EST Governance
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".

 
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Re: FCC's mass media (de)regulation (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, January 03 @ 13:02:27 EST
The problem that I foresee more media deregulation causing is a very simple one.

I foresee the news become even moreso the product of conglomerates. As it is now many newspapers nationwide are owned by large corporations, and same thing with many news stations and programs. Many of the articles and stories we hear were written by the Associated Press and Reuters, and the fact that many news outlets are owned by the same company results in the news being the same almost everywhere(and likely biased). Finding old fashion independent objective journalism is becoming more and more of a challenge lately.

Even on the internet objective news is hard to find, with so many of the so called reputable news sources being owned by more media giants with thier own interests in mind.

I can cite one major example of the result of this corporate influence. The Afghanistan situation is not being reported on very much at all. How many Americans know the condition of that nation since we freed them from the Taliban?


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