Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09

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Subject: [Leica] Media ownership
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:59:15 -0800

After all this talk of our rights, I thought that this might be of
interest to our LALUG. 
Slobodan Dimitrov

> >
> >The FCC will be holding hearings at USC on February 18th.  These hearings
> >concern relaxing the rules controlling media ownership.  If that happens,
> >it will narrow the marketplace considerably and enable fewer and fewer
> >corporations to own more and more media outlets in more and more
> >markets.  By way of example, if the FCC continues going in the direction
> >Michael Powell (Director of the FCC and Colin Powell's son) wants it to go
> >in, NBC (owned by General Electric) could end up owning the newspapers,
> >radio stations and television stations in hundreds or thousands of towns in
> >Middle America.
> >
> >The hearings at USC are a continuation of the hearings that were held a
> >couple of weeks ago in New York City.  Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy
> >Now!, was one of those who testified in New York.
> >
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