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FCC and Media Consolidation

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is trying to fast track new legislation that will allow corporations to own even more media outlets in local markets, despite overwhelming opposition from the American public. This attempt at deregulation is so blatantly corrupt that both democrats & republicans in congress have joined together to say they will overturn any decision by the FCC.

Conspiracy Theory Rock: Media-opoly

Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse did a take off of the old School House Rock cartoons, about the monopolistic choke-hold that big corporations have on American broadcast media. This was originally aired in March of 1998, but has been edited out of reruns.

Bill Moyers Journal - Low Power Radio

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This week's Bill Moyers Journal focussed on big media's attempts to consolidate power and lobby Congress and the FCC.

In this segment, Moyers looked at the services provided by small local broadcasters and how they benefit their communities. During Hurricane Katrina, only 4 out of 41 broadcasters were able to stay on air and provide the area with coverage of the storm, as well as issue evacuation warnings and direct survivors to FEMA aid centers - information the big media failed to offer. And this isn't the first time big media has failed the districts in which they broadcast.

But now we have a chance to turn it all around. Legislation in both the House and the Senate could help to promote local media and restore a balance of power over the public airwaves.

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