Guys and Gals don’t get fooled by all this smokescreen.
The FCC has been trying to create a MONOPOLY for ALL American media with the help of Colin Powell’s SON.
quote for a news article
In his 1983 book, The Media Monopoly, author Ben Bagdikian predicted that “If mergers, acquisitions and takeovers continue at the present rate, one massive firm will be in virtual control of all major media by the 1990s.”
Bagdikian wasn’t far off.
Media ownership rules that could be approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by the end of May would lift current limits on the number of TV, radio and newspaper outlets a corporation could own and open the way for an unprecedented media consolidation—placing the “public’s right to receive information from diverse sources” in serious jeopardy, according to a recent statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The council condemned the FCC’s efforts to accelerate consolidation and urged the commission to maintain current media ownership rules.
When Bagdikian wrote The Media Monopoly in the 1980s, he cited 50 corporations “that control what America sees, hears and reads.” Today, that number is five: AOL, Disney, Fox, General Electric Co. and Viacom.
“FCC leadership under [Chairman Michael] Powell hasn’t been open to having hearings,” says MAP Deputy Director Cheryl Leanza. Media analysts, including the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy, widely believe Powell supports the consolidation, citing Powell’s 2000 statement that “I start with the proposition that the rules are no longer necessary.” Powell, along with two other Republican commissioners who support media consolidation, is in the majority on the five-member _commission.
:rolleyes: