Death of Indipendent Media?

[Aetosion]

From avaaz.org regarding a new bill in congress:

"In 4 days, the Federal Communications Commission could begin to lift a 35-year-old ban preventing corporate thugs like Rupert Murdoch from creating media monopolies. But if we can flood their public consultation now we could throw our drowning independent media the life buoy it needs.
The ban stops any company from owning a major daily newspaper and a television station in the same market. If lifted, the new rule would pave the way for media moguls to gobble-up local, independent media from New York to Sacramento. This plan was put together secretly but we can stop it -- the courts want the FCC to address public concerns via a comment period ending March 5th.

Let's inundate the FCC with thousands of public comments to say nobody should be allowed to monopolize our print and broadcast media."

^ that's scurry. Do shit.

 

[Oxea]

Define same market? Murdoch and News Corp. already own media within the US especially. He already has a media monopoly and News Corp. is a media conglomerate that spans many countries. If anything there should be a bill where such corporations/people etc. aren't allowed to necessarily tie in politics and media to create bias - Fox News is a massive example of this.

 

[Devoshade]

Hmm i would support this but a lil busy with other things right now, like a fighting my 3rd combat tour 3 months left hhahaha. But seriously this would also be bad, because they monopolize then they can control the full flow of information the way they want it. So i agree with you Oxea this needs to be stopped, afterwards Afghanistan needs to be done to hehehe.