Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
The FCC this afternoon approved easing restrictions on media ownership in the 20 largest cities and grandfathered in 42 current and pending exemptions to their rules on owning a print and broadcast outlet in the same market. Congress is threatening to do something about it, sorta like they threatened to do something about the war, and about tax breaks for oil companies, and about cleaning up Washington, so, all hail our corporate media overlords! [Yahoo News]
The FCC this afternoon approved easing restrictions on media ownership in the 20 largest cities and grandfathered in 42 current and pending exemptions to their rules on owning a print and broadcast outlet in the same market. Congress is threatening to do something about it, sorta like they threatened to do something about the war, and about tax breaks for oil companies, and about cleaning up Washington, so, all hail our corporate media overlords! [Yahoo News]








Ah, how quickly they forget the rules when there is free food! Last week, the Federal Communications Bar Association held their annual
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), seen here penning erotic Buffy fanfic, gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House decrying the bill that boosted indecency fines tenfold for TV networks. It even ended with the classic legislative sendoff, “Mr. Speaker, I for one will be voting against this bill.” The only problem: He voted for it.
Fuck! We sure are glad we don’t work in radio or TV.