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Companies Win, Consumers Lose in McCain's Tech Plan

Art Brodsky | Posted 08.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, John McCain, Fcc, FCC Comcast Hearing, Net Neutrality, Internet Policy, John McCain Internet, Kevin Powell, Kevin Martin, Mccain Net Neutrality, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

McCain's internet policy is the product of a team of advisors that gives lip service to consumers, but when the rubber meets the road, it's the corporations that get most of the goodies.

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Stealth Advertising: The Dangerous Sound of Media Silence

Nancy Marsden | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Television, Product Placement, Advertising, Regulation, Kevin Martin FCC, Public Health, Stealth Marketing, Media Bias, Media News

There's nothing philosophical about it. When a press release from 23 watchdog groups falls in the media "forest" and nobody hears it, as far as the pu...

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FCC Anti-Comcast Decision is Pro-Business, Pro-Competition and Pro-Growth

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, Business News

Last Friday the FCC bared its teeth. finding that the nation's largest cable company had practiced discriminatory network practices -- throttling file-sharing traffic -- and did so with a lack of disclosure.

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The FCC Set To Give The Net An Unlikely Victory

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Technology, Comcast Interfering, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, Net Neutrality, Media News

A new era for the Internet could begin on Aug. 1, when the FCC is expected to decide that Internet users have rights under the communications law.

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After Losing Janet Jackson Battle, FCC Extends Its Misguided Policies into TV Product Placement Review

Jack Myers | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Nicole Richie, Television, Cher, First Amendment, Media News, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, Janet Jackson, Media News

Unless the TV industry is permitted to stretch some boundaries in this new media environment, local TV news will quickly follow newspapers into the economic doldrums.

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FCC Suddenly Relevant As It Approaches 74th Birthday

New York Sun | Harold Furchtgott-Roth | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Media News

Tomorrow marks the 74th anniversary of the Communications Act of 1934, the legal framework for federal regulation of all manner of communications thro...

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Kevin Martin Has His Head In The Broadband Cloud

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Broadband, Fcc, FCC Chairman, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin FCC, Public Airwaves, Media News

This week, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin put some new spectrum up for auction. But there's a catch.

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Ten Worst Telco Moments of 2007

Timothy Karr | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media

Read More: Iphone, Fcc, 2007, Media, Fisa, Verizon Censoring, Telecoms, Kevin Martin FCC, Net Neutrality, Media News

#2. Telcos Spy on Millions of Americans. #4. AT&T and Verizon Censor Free Speech. #8. Bush's Justice Dept. Files Against Net Neutrality.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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FCC Lifts 32-Year Old Consolidation Ban, Allows Broadcasters To Own Newspapers

AP | John Dunbar | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

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

The Federal Communications Commission, overturning a 32-year-old ban, voted Tuesday to allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to ...

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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.

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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.

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FCC Expected To Approve Proposal Allowing Broadcasters To Own Newspapers

AP | John Dunbar | Posted 12.18.2007 | Business

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Despite intense political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve a proposal Tuesday that will allow broadcasters in th...

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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.

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FCC Chief "Defiant," Refuses To Delay Consolidation Vote

Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media

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

Facing growing criticism of his agenda and tactics, a defiant Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, refused senators' re...

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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.

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Harry Potter vs. Big Media

Josh Silver | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media

Read More: Senate, Fcc, Media Consolidation, Media, Kevin Martin, Media Reform, Harry Potter, Music, News Corp, Tribune Company, Potterwatch, Media Ownership Rules, Media Ownership, Harry and the Potters, Wizard Rock, Gannett, Harry Potter Alliance, Media Monopolies, Media Conglomerates, Big Media, Federal Communications Commission, Rupert Murdoch, Andrew Slack, Harry Potter Fans, Kevin Martin FCC, Local News, Music Inspired by Harry Potter, Voldemedia, Media News

Potterwatch is building a real-world movement against "Voldemedia" -- the handful of companies that control most of what we see, hear and read every day.

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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.

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"Lone Operator" Martin The FCC's New Punching Bag

Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 12.10.2007 | Media

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Critics usually blame Martin, a soft-spoken Republican known as a political tactician who has accomplished the rare feat of being criticized by all fo...

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FCC Chief Martin Defends His Case For Consolidation

AP/Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media

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The nation's top communications regulator Wednesday denied that his proposed media ownership rule has a major loophole that would allow newspapers and...

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Congress Investigating FCC Chair Martin For "Abuse Of Power"

Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media

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Two key House lawmakers announced Monday that they were investigating the Federal Communications Commission, accusing its chairman of "possible abuse ...

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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.

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Schadenfreude and the FCC

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.28.2007 | Media

Read More: Cable Television, Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, Michael Powell, Media News

Today, FCC Chairman Martin knows what it feels like when his attempts to, of all things, reregulate cable got shot down after he thought the votes were there for a win.

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