Key Arguments for Rejecting the FCC’s Media Ownership Rules in the Feb. 11 Third Circuit Court of Appeals Case

February 6, 2004
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In creating its new media ownership rules, which allow massive consolidation among local broadcast media, including newspaper-TV mergers in 90 percent of local markets, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC):

  • Created an irrational and internally contradictory order
  • Wrongly focused on the increase in media outlets, not the fact there are fewer owners of those outlets
  • Wrongly claimed newspapers not important source for local news
  • Based rules on a wrong premise that produces nonsensical results
  • Refused to seek public input on the tool that is the heart of the rules
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