Still on the Quest

Just got alerted by Avaaz that the FCC is about to decide on whether or not to lift the ban which prevents companies from having media monopolies that are even more outrageous than the ones we've got now. (6 companies control about half of what we see... That's way too few.) We've got until the 5th to comment.

Here's the Avaaz petition link: http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_media_barons//?cl=1629985483&v=12974

And here are the sources Avaaz cited.


SOURCES

Editorial: The FCC recycles a bad idea to allow media consolidation (Seattle Times) :
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2017083232_edit27mergers.html

FCC Seeks to ease media ownership rule (New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/business/media/fcc-seeks-to-ease-media-ownership-rule.html?_r=2

FCC proposes relaxing newspaper-TV ownership rules (Los Angeles Times) :
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/fcc-newspaper-tv-ownership.html

FCC plan points to consolidation (Newsmax):
http://www.newsmax.com/Markets/FCC-Ownership-Rules-consolidation/2011/12/23/id/422023

If you're the kind of person who is willing to speak up publicly at the FCC here are some links.

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6016881215 documents concerning the topic

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=09-182 other people's comments


http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display?z=qguet place where you can comment by creating a document and uploading it. This will be a public document, so be polite!