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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-10 12:21 AM
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13. Ownership is key.
Who writes the paychecks, who can hire and fire.

We used to have FCC restrictions on excessive consolidation of media ownership. But those were drastically weakened over the years.

I believe Gore's understanding of this may have been what led him to found Current TV. Not sure what's happening with that now.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey had a bill some years ago, for which I tried to muster support here on DU, but few were interested.

I.m.h.o., we need an antitrust law of information (in addition to strengthening and enforcing commercial antitrust laws).
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