Hehe....Senate overturns FCC "Make the Large Media Conglomerates Even Bigger" ruling.

[Fausto]

This is the first good news out of the Senate I've heard in a while.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate on Tuesday defied Bush administration opposition and voted to rescind new regulations allowing large media companies to grow even bigger.

The Senate approved, 55-40, a resolution that would roll back the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) rules allowing television networks to own more local stations and permitting conglomerates to own a newspaper, television stations and radio outlets in a single market.

 

[Aharami]

nice....i think

 

[ElFenix]

the senate usually does the right thing

 

[notfred]

Someone's going to come in here crying "Communism! This is the death of free enterprise!" in a minute, but I think this is a good thing. We really don't need one giant national media company that controls everything we see.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: notfred
Someone's going to come in here crying "Communism! This is the death of free enterprise!" in a minute, but I think this is a good thing. We really don't need one giant national media company that controls everything we see.

Tell that to Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes.

 

[codeyf]

Originally posted by: Aharami
nice....i think

 

[conjur]

Means Clear Channel can't get any bigger?

Wish the gov't would break them up...bastages.