While Michael Powell was still running the FCC he commissioned a study to show that consolidation of media ownership wasn't harmful to local programming. Ooops. Turns out locally owned stations produced 5 and half minutes more per half hour than did stations owned by Big Media. An attorney named Adam Candeub, who was with the FCC at the time and is now a law professor at Mich State, said that senior managers ordered that “every last piece” of the report be destroyed.
If you want to send a comment to the FCC go here.
Remind them that local news broadcasts should be just that: local news.
In a side note: Belo Corp, owner of Dallas' Last Remaining Daily, has laid off staff in an attempt to refocus on local news. Good.
posted by quash @ 8:36 PM
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