The FCC is expected to eliminate even more media ownership rules today.

[CousinIT]

Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pitched a rather troubling proposal: that the FCC repeal its rule preventing a local broadcaster from also owning a daily newspaper, a radio station, in the same area. In Pai’s view, this is a common-sense thing to do given the punishing, rapidly changing economics of media these days. But he’s practically concern-trolling local media in order to advance a proposal that would chiefly grant more power to already powerful corporations.

Pai says he still wants to prevent a company from owning more than two TV stations in a given market, which an FCC rule essentially prohibits right now. But he argues in the Times that its sibling rule, which separates TV, newspaper, and radio ownership, has become archaic, even though it was similarly designed to prevent one company from having too much control over available media in a single market. Perhaps especially an ideologically motivated one on a buying spree, like, oh, Sinclair.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/11/ajit_pai_s_new_york_times_op_ed_is_concern_trolling_local_journalism.html

[scarletwoman]

1. Kick for more eyeballs... nt

[Matthew28]

2. The democrats

Should be raising hell over this! We must run on anti-trust and ending the monopoly of our society!