Free Press continues to oppose the FCC punting on considering...
Free Press continues to oppose the FCC punting on considering diversity issues in the current media ownership review (CD March 7 p4) by putting it off to the next quadrennial review, as a rulemaking notice proposed. “Sound policy making” and…
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last year’s 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals remand of a diversity rule from the last review “require the FCC to evaluate the potential negative impact of further eroding its media ownership limits on ownership opportunities for women and people of color in the context of the current review,” the nonprofit that opposes media consolidation said. It opposes allowing more common ownership of daily newspapers and radio or TV stations within a market because “over-leveraged debt resulting from consolidation has put a number of otherwise profitable newspaper businesses in a precarious financial position,” an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bmyfe3). “To service this debt, these companies have cut jobs and reporting.” Free Press officials met an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, said the filing posted to docket 09-182 Thursday.