New York Newspaper takes Anti-Cross-Ownership Stand

NEW YORK NEWSPAPER TAKES ANTI-CROSS-OWNERSHIP STAND
[SOURCE: Lasar's Letter on the FCC, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
Undermined by efforts to weaken the Federal Communications Commission’s limits on newspaper/broadcast station cross-ownership, the New York Daily News has filed a statement with the FCC against media consolidation. "Permitting cross-media combinations involving one or more television stations and more than one daily newspaper in the same market would do substantial damage to the Commission's claimed goals of ensuring viewpoint diversity and economic competition in local media markets," the Daily News writes. Published by Daily News, L.P., New York's Daily News appears to be the only big city newspaper in the nation to have filed recent comments with the FCC advising against lifting its cross-ownership limits. The paper holds no interests in television, radio, or in other dailies published in greater New York, unlike its competitor, the New York Post, whose owner, News Corporation, also owns two television stations in the region, thanks to an FCC waiver on the cross ownership rule.
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