FCC can't turn back media tide

[Commentary] From the Senate floor, the Federal Communications Commission is denounced for kneeling before business by allowing broadcast owners to buy newspapers. From the executive suite, the same FCC is denounced for bullying business by forcing broadcast owners to file meticulous reports detailing what they do to serve their communities. So does that mean the commission is getting things about right -- maneuvering between industry and the public in a way that favors neither unduly and annoys both in rightful measure? Or do we have a moment when the way policymakers think about media power is exposed as the incoherent muddle it is? Policymakers spar over issues that either don't matter or matter in ways that they misunderstand. The consolidation they deplore is a sideshow, the localism they extol may yet make the rest of us shudder.
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