Fcc Media Consolidation

Page: 1

Moyers vs. Murdoch: Journalism vs. Megalomania

Josh Silver | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Free Press, Media Consolidation, FCC Media Consolidation, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Media, Bill O'Reilly, Media Bias, Media News

The O'Reilly ambush is typical cable news entertainment-posing-as- journalism whose purpose is to sell eyeballs to advertisers, not to inform citizens or better society.

Read Post

The Media Shopoholic Strikes Again

Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: News Corp, Media Consolidation, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Rupert Murdoch Newsday, New York Post, Newsday, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Washington Post, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Media Monopolies, Media News

Whenever Murdoch is depressed, my studies over the years as a media pathologist find, he has what he calls "an expansionist lunge." And when he's in one of them he can't be outbid.

Read Post

FCC Chairman Defends Media Ownership Rules

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 12.25.2007 | Media

Read More: Fcc, FCC Media Ownership, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Media News

The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ow...

Read Whole Story

Actually, I Support Yesterday's FCC's Cross-Ownership Decision

Russell Shaw | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Media, Media Consolidation, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

In most metro areas -- especially the 20 largest metro areas where the relaxed restrictions would apply -- we have lots of diverse voices.

Read Post

Is the Internet Next On the FCC Media Consolidation Agenda?

Art Brodsky | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Internet, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Net Neutrality, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

The last thing this country needs after the FCC allows the traditional media to consolidate is for the to let the telephone and cable companies exercise proprietary control over the Internet.

Read Post

Kevin Martin: My New Hero

Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Cross Ownership, Fcc, Newspapers, News Corp, Dow Jones, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

The proposed changes were so diluted relative to an outright repeal of the ban on cross ownership that it was hard for me to imagine that anyone thought it would materially or even modestly change the landscape.

Read Post

The FCC Voted: Time to Raise Hell

Josh Silver | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Fcc, Stop Big Media, Federal Communications Commission, Media Reform, Kevin Martin, Communications, Junk Media, New, Newspapers, News Corp, Dow Jones, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman, Cross Ownership, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

Witness yet another shining moment: the Bush administration serving up a wholesale giveaway to the largest media corporations in the most corrupt process imaginable.

Read Post

One Wild and Crazy Guy

Marvin Kitman | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

Read More: National Association of Broadcasters, Michael Copps, Npr, FCC Media Consolidation, Cable Television Advertising Bureau, Jonathan Adelstein, Communications Act, Michael Powell, Kevin Martin, Newton Minow, National Cable Television Association, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

The last thing in the world an FCC commissioner has time to do is actually look at what they are supposed to be by law regulating. They are too busy being wined and dined at industry events.

Read Post

Harry Potter Fans and the Fight Against "VoldeMedia"

Andrew Slack | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media

Read More: Media Consolidation, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin Media Consolidation, Harry Potter, Media, Lord Voldemort, Kevin Martin FCC, J.K.Rowling, Voldemedia, Harry Potter Alliance, Media News

The Harry Potter Alliance put out "Rocking Out Against VoldeMedia," which is aimed at building awareness and action against FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's current rush to gut media consolidation rules.

Read Post

Stop the FCC Before December 18th!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Kevin Martin, Joseph Goebbels, Congressional Hearing on Media Consolidation, Media Consolidation, FCC Media Consolidation, Big Media, Kevin Martin Media Consolidation, Fox News, Media News

Chairman Martin and the other Republican corporate puppets on the FCC want to destroy localism in order to save it. The citizens of this nation, along with the Congress, have had enough of media consolidation.

Read Post

FCC Proposes Greater Media Consolidation

Stephen Lendman | ZNet | Posted 12.14.2007 | Home

Read More: HuffPost's Off the Bus, Huffington Post Off the Bus, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman, Offthebus, Home News

On October 17, FCC chairman Kevin Martin proposed lifting the 1975 media cross-ownership rule that forbids a company from owning a newspaper and telev...

Read Whole Story

Junk News Is Making Us Sick

Josh Silver | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Media Consolidation, Fcc, Media, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

Today in the Congress, senators berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation. And Martin didn't flinch.

Read Post

Big Media Myopia at the FCC

Timothy Karr | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media

Read More: Media Conglomerates, Mainstream Media, Media Consolidation, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin, Media, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

Allowing one company to own broadcast station and a major daily newspaper in the same market is so unpopular that one wonders what really motivates FCC chair Kevin Martin to defy common sense.

Read Post

FCC to Tribune: So Sue Me

Craig Aaron | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Tribune Company, Tribune, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, FCC Media Consolidation, Sam Zell, Media News

The FCC could have issued a single temporary waiver while it sorts out the rules governing newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership everywhere. But the FCC's maneuver is far more complicated -- and devious.

Read Post

Martin's Tunnel Vision for Big Media

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.27.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Media Consolidation, FCC Media Consolidation, Big Media, Media Regulations, Media News

Why does FCC Chairman Kevin Martin remain determined to turn a blind eye to the public opposition to unchecked consolidation?

Read Post

Even GOP Reacts Harshly To "Misguided" And "Harmful" FCC Chair Proposal

Financial Times | Stephanie Kirchgaessner | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media

Read More: FCC Chairman's New York Times Op-Ed, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman, Media News

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to rein in Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who is seeking to expa...

Read Whole Story

Cross Ownership: 1 + 1 + 1.1

Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 11.16.2007 | Media

Read More: Cross Ownership, Newspapers, Media Conglomerates, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin FCC, Newspapers Economy, Media News

Newspapers economic challenges have more to do with the Internet and the loss of classified ads than competition from other media.

Read Post

When It Comes to Selling Media Consolidation, FCC Chair Kevin Martin Hasn't Learned Much

Eric Deggans | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Media Consolidation, Cross-Ownership, FCC Chairman's New York Times Op-Ed, Powell FCC, Radio, FCC Chairman, Michael Powell, FCC Media Consolidation, Radio Station Ownership, Kevin Martin FCC, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Kevin Martin's New York Times Op Ed, Media News

Now it seems obvious how Martin was going to try slipping more media consolidation past a public steadfastly opposed to it.

Read Post

FCC Chief Proposes Corporate Ownership, Media Consolidation In NYT Op-Ed

New York Times | Kevin Martin | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media

Read More: FCC Chairman's New York Times Op-Ed, Radio, FCC Chairman, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin, Radio Station Ownership, Fcc, Kevin Martin's New York Times Op-Ed, Kevin Martin FCC, Media Consolidation, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News

In many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those news...

Read Whole Story

Your FCC At Work

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Media Consolidation, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman, Radio, Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman's New York Times Op-Ed, Kevin Martin's New York Times Op-Ed, Radio Station Ownership, Kevin Martin FCC, Newspaper Industry, Media News

The FCC Chairman has taken to the op-ed page of the New York Times to propose that big-city papers should now be permitted to purchase a television or radio station in their market.

Read Post

Question for the FCC: Where are the Women?

Carol Jenkins | Posted 10.19.2007 | Media

Read More: FCC Hearings Testimony, Women's Representation in the Media, Media Consolidation, Women and Media, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin, Media, Women's Media Center, Media News

The proposed Federal Communications Commission rules do nothing to include women and minorities, and until they do, should be opposed.

Read Post

Stop the FCC Now!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, David Horowitz, Neil Postman, Dana Perino, Dick Cheney, Anti-Trust Media, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Media Consolidation, Fcc, Corporate Media, FCC Media Consolidation, Media Reform, The Fairness Doctrine, Public Broadcasting, Media News

Unless the Dems aggressively reform the corporate media, the crucial debates on the key issues will continue to be slanted, skewed, and distorted.

Read Post

Page: 1