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ap215
"We the undersigned do hereby request an immediate review of the 'Waiver' extended to News Corporation and Rupert Murdoch, a waiver that allows him/them to own/control one or more Television stations in the same city where they own one or more newspapers (New York City, NY). This seems to give an imbalanced monopoly to the public airwaves and an imbalance in commercial speech, in particular, in light of their blatant insensitivity to issues of race (i.e. the N.Y. Post Cartoon) and bias through the use of those publicly owned and federally licensed communication tools."

http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/
jeffmoskin
QUOTE(ap215 @ Feb 23 2009, 02:22 PM) *
"We the undersigned do hereby request an immediate review of the 'Waiver' extended to News Corporation and Rupert Murdoch, a waiver that allows him/them to own/control one or more Television stations in the same city where they own one or more newspapers (New York City, NY). This seems to give an imbalanced monopoly to the public airwaves and an imbalance in commercial speech, in particular, in light of their blatant insensitivity to issues of race (i.e. the N.Y. Post Cartoon) and bias through the use of those publicly owned and federally licensed communication tools."

http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/

We can all thank Bubba Clinton for signing the Communications Act of 1996 into law, repealing existing laws limiting ownership to 7AMs, 7 FMs, 5TVs, and no more than one of each in any market, and none owned by a newspaper unless grandfathered in (like WQXR and the NY Times).

Heck of a job, Bubba.
cutecat
Heck of a job, Bubba.
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Hey jeff
Happy Trails to you ...too!
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