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FCC and media reform

There’s a good piece on the moves to rewrite media regulations from Camille Taiara at City Beat (the piece first appeared in the SF Bay Guardian). One choice quote:

Read through the FCC’s “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” for the current review or through one of Powell’s editorials in USA Today, and one feature stands out: Over and over again, the public is referred to not as participants, not as citizens, but as mere consumers. Yet the media aren’t just another industry selling just another product. They’re selling ideas and images and a window into the world outside our living rooms — and many are using a public resource, the airwaves, to do it.

For those who find these moves worrying, you may find Free Press’s new Media Reform Network of interest.