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Monday, September 08, 2003
Fighting back against the media
monopoly. The progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org
is trying to get 100,000 signatures from people who oppose the FCC's
decision last June to deregulate the media even more than it already
had been (see "Don't
Quote Me," June
6).
At stake: a proposal to allow the
major broadcast networks to buy more local television stations, and
to allow a single owner to control a newspaper, a television station,
and a radio station in the same community.
MoveOn.org is looking for the
signatures by this Wednesday so that it can present them at a news
conference it is holding with two anti-deregulation senators,
Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine and Democrat Byron Dorgan of North
Dakota.
For more information, as well as
instructions on how to sign the electronic petition, go to
MoveOn.org's "Stop
the FCC" page.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
