WESLEY CLARK SLAMS MEDIA CONSOLIDATION

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WESLEY CLARK SLAMS MEDIA CONSOLIDATION
Democratic Presidential Candidate Also Criticizes Entertainment Industry
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=39479
January 05, 2004
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By Ira Teinowitz

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AdAge.com) -- The consolidation of American media companies should stop and rules that safeguard local media company independence need to be reinstated, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark

In response to questions as he stumped across the Granite State toward the Jan. 27 presidential primary, the retired 4-star general from Arkansas was critical of both big media and an entertainment industry he characterized as creating and selling ever more violent video games to children.

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He even suggested that many of the video games now being sold to consumers are more violent than the video game simulations used by the U.S. military to train its troops in the realities of combat.

In his broader comments from the campaign stage, Mr. Clark attacked the Bush Administration for, among other things, its Iraq War policies, its failure to track down Olsama bin Laden, the loss of U.S. jobs and inadequate health care measures.

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On Saturday, Mr. Clark's campaign produced more than 600 people to hear his Saturday remarks -- the largest crowd yet assembled for the candidate. A "Conversation with Clark" event originally scheduled for a basement room in Portsmouth's South Church had to be moved to the larger assembly hall. A second stop later in the day at the small North Hampton town hall was greeted by another crowd as well as a fire marshal from the next door fire hall enforcing local occupancy limit laws.