Free Press asked Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to hit the road, same as...
Free Press asked Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to hit the road, same as the nonprofit that opposes media consolidation also asked the FCC’s other new member to travel outside Washington (CD June 5 p13). The group said its officials asked Rosenworcel…
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to go to public hearings outside the beltway on a media ownership rulemaking notice’s proposals, “following the good example for commissioner engagement set during the previous quadrennial review.” Changing the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban “would not only reduce the number of independent journalistic voices in a market, but also decrease the amount of news produced market-wide,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 09-182 (http://xrl.us/bnc74n). It said last year’s order setting up the Connect America Fund has Free Press “alarmed about the prospect of increased burdens on telephone ratepayers in exchange for an altogether uncertain promise of lower wireless prices."