Free Press Pushes for Media-Ownership Oversight Hearing

FREE PRESS PUSHES FOR MEDIA OWNERSHIP OVERSIGHT HEARING
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Free Press has asked its 350,000 members to contact their congressman asking for oversight hearings on media ownership.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6492762.html

* See: "Tell Congress to Stop Big Media"
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/fcc_oversight/

* John Edwards Warns Against Rewriting Rules That Prevent Excessive Media Consolidation
John Edwards sent a letter to the FCC Commissioners in response to Chairman Kevin J. Martin's proposal to loosen media ownership rules: "I urge you to cease your efforts to radically rewrite the rules preventing excessive media consolidation. You and your fellow commissioners have the responsibility to ensure that our nation's media is open, democratic and as diverse as the American people, and not -- like too much of our economy and our political system today -- dominated by the wealthiest Americans, large corporations and their lobbyists. Rewriting the ownership rules in the manner you propose is contrary to that responsibility."
http://johnedwards.com/news/headlines/20071019-fcc-letter/

* The Time Has Come
[Commentary] Broadcasters are hoping FCC Chairman Kevin Martin can deliver on his plan to vote on new media ownership rules by Dec. 18, but the impediments remain many, including angry Democrats with pitchforks and torches. The FCC's process for reviewing the rules has had its critics, but they are the same people who don't want the dergulatory rule rewrite at all so their complaints must be seen through that prism. The FCC has held more field hearings and gotten much more public input this time around, which even Sen Byron Dorgan, head pitchfork carrier, concedes.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/50000405.html#620016062