It is time for FCC to break up BIG MEDIA!!

[Left Coast2020]

As a former broadcaster (16 years), I am depressed that this industry fell prey to uber-corporate companies--therby destroying small-medium market radio/TV stations. There needs to be a change.

In a functioning democracy, the media is the people's voice, and the entity responsible for holding power accountable. Without a free media fairly scrutinizing the decisions of political and economic power brokers and bringing important events to light, elected officials and corporate CEOs would be corrupt and unaccountable to the people.


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/11342-fcc-break-up-the-big-media-monopoly

[AsahinaKimi]

1. Can they start with

Clear channel and FOX??....please.

[freshwest]

2. It would remove a great deal of misery from the American mindscape.

[Angry Dragon]

3. YES!!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Left Coast.

[alittlelark]

5. I worked in radio in the 80's

Good $ for a student. Our station was bought and changed to CW. The market was already saturated w/ CW. Two or three years later it became RW Talk Radio.

Many really amazing small stations died during the Reagan '80's.

[Gregorian]

6. "In a functioning democracy, the media is" our control system. And we are not in control.

And this is exactly why they hijacked it. They know that without it, we are out of control.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. This is a democratic republic.

Secondly, it is only perceived as such. We are a plutocracy Masquerading as a democratic republic.

[shcrane71]

8. All of Britain investigates the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal,

yet, there doesn't seem to be a similar investigation here. Even though it seems that the scandal jumped the pond.

[spanone]

9. new departments went in the shitter when they had to make a profit