May 22, 6:06 p.m.: Media monopolies

New FCC rules will have dire consequences for media diversity.

By: Hank Kalet
   Media monopoly, here we come.
   The Federal Communications Commission is planning to scrap ownership limitations designed to maintain some level of diversity of viewpoint — a move likely to result in even further media consolidation.
   Here’s a great piece from St. John’s law professor Leonard M. Baynes, a scholar-in-residence at the FCC from 1998 to 2001, in New York Newsday explains what is at stake.
   Free Press — a nonprofit group founded by scholar Robert McChesney — is working to fight the changes. You can find it on the Web at MediaReform.org.