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- 09-03-03 Court Blocks Media Dominance Rules (USAToday.com)
"A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued an emergency stay delaying new Federal Communications Commission media ownership rules that would allow a single company to own newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same city."
"In a loss for the Republican-led FCC, the three-judge panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia granted a stay that prevents the new rules from taking effect as scheduled on Thursday."
"Critics argued that the FCC rules would concentrate too much power in the hands of large media companies."
7-03
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- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (Alternet.org - Schmelzer)
"Indeed, the issue of centralized news will be exacerbated after the FCC's June 2 vote on ownership. On the chopping block are six regulations that attempt to preserve a diversity of voices and local control of media – from the ban on owning both a TV station and newspaper in the same market to limits on how many radio stations one group can own in a given area."
"Should the FCC vote to weaken these protections – as expected – more of our airwaves will be concentrated in the hands of a few corporations."
Nichols says, " ' We still have a highly regulated media. The only thing that is changing is that it's now being regulated in the interests not of democracy or the people, but larger corporations.' " 4-03
- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (PBS.org - NOW)
Provides stories on the effects of deregulation on building monopolies in the mass media. Also discusses how monopolies in mass media affect diversity of views. 4-03
- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (ReclaimtheMedia.org - Lawson)
"The most likely result of dropping our cross-ownership ban would not be the creation of small, geographically-focused media firms sharing resources to create high-quality, regionally accountable content. Rather, such deregulation, combined with loosened broadcast ownership caps, would throw open the door to the expansion of already-huge national networks with the market power to choke out or absorb small competitors, with programming decisions emitted from centralized headquarters. (Imagine a faintly localized version of USA Today being the only newspaper and CNN the only TV or radio broadcast news source available to a community)." 4-03
- Essay on Media Control and Democracy (LovePeopleNotMoney.com - Chomsky)
". . . Let me [Naom Chomsky] begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free. . . ."
An alternative conception of democracy is that the public must be barred from managing of their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled. That may sound like an odd conception of democracy, but it's important to understand that it is the prevailing conception. . . . " 10-03
- Journalism in Time of War (Journalism.org)
Provides stories about how the mass media are covering the war in Iraq. 4-03
- Mass Media and Diversity (TheNation.com - Miller)
"Of all the [media] cartel's dangerous consequences for American society and culture, the worst is its corrosive influence on journalism." Includes a chart of the holdings of the ten largest media giants. Shows how they control almost all mass media. 4-03
- Media Control and Democracy (MediaChannel.com)
Provides news from independent Internet sources. 1-04
- Media Control and Democracy (MediaChannel.com)
Provides news from independent Internet sources. 1-04
- Media Control and Democracy (MediaReform.net)
Provides news and essays related to media control. 10-03
- On Media Giantism (The New York Times - Safir)
In this essay, William Safir discusses the dangers of monopolies in the mass media. 4-03
- Promoting Public Discourse in Broadcast Media (MediaAccess.org)
"Media, particularly broadcast media, presents a significant opportunity to educate this country's citizens about important issues of the day." 4-03
- Promoting an "Especially Bad War" (CBS News - Rooney)
"The word makes it sound as though we're just a few countries short of having the whole world on our side, and that isn't true. Most of the world is against us. The Administration says 49 countries are part of the coalition. I see that Eritrea, Uganda and Iceland are on our side."
"The fact is, though, we're in this thing with the British, who have 45,000 soldiers there, and the Australians, who have 2,000. That's it. The other 46 wish us well or let us fly bombers over their country. Big deal."
"We've practically bribed some of them. We offered Turkey $15 billion to let our troops go through there but they refused. President Bush won't be sending the president of Turkey anything for his birthday this year." 4-03
- Radio's Media Mess (Salon.com - Boehlert)
According to the essay, deregulation in radio has caused such a mess by consolidating power into one company, that it is creating barriers to deregulation of other broadcast media. 4-03
- Reporting the War - Embedding Reporters (National Review - Owens)
"For my money the program of embedding reporters is going pretty well." 4-03
- War and Internet News (EditorandPublisher.com - Outing)
"While TV anchors started repeating themselves and filling air time with their own theories when there was a temporarily lull of new information, the Web with its hundreds of available news channels offered a respite when TV news started to flounder."
"Indeed, I found myself annoyed with the seemingly singular perspective of the major U.S. television network newscasts. I hungered for some alternative perspectives that TV failed to provide. If I was forced to choose between my TV or my PC for the duration of this war, I'd keep the computer. " 4-03
- War and Internet News - An Alternative (EditorandPublisher.com - Bowen)
"Long ago, print journalism found its place in the new order of things by providing a cooler, more deliberate perspective on the events that our readers may have seen for themselves on TV. Now in the Iraqi conflict, online journalism may have found its niche too, by blending the depth of print and the immediacy of broadcast with the global instincts of the Internet." 4-03
- Who Owns What in the Media (Columbia Journalism Review)
Provides a listing of companies owned by each of the largest media companies to show who controls what we see and how we see it. 4-03
- Who Owns What in the Media (PBS.org)
"Examine the charts breaking down what each of the five U.S. media giants now control (as of February 2001)." 4-03
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