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“Tribune, 3 Nets Plan Appeal to Supreme Court” By the Editor and Publishing Staff of Media Week January 28, 2005 Media Week (http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/print/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000779618)
In late January, Media Week published a short article detailing the latest struggles that media companies are facing in conglomerating their assets. Several high profile companies, such as GE and Tribune, are going all the way to the Supreme Court to enforce recent FCC relaxation on who could own what in a given market. As it stands right now, a company cannot own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same market or two newspapers. Chapter four in our textbook dealt with the history of newspapers, focusing in on how modern newspapers have both shaped and been shaped by American society. Current trends in media ownership are being controlled more and more by companies either merging with or buying smaller media outlets. Media is again becoming very influenced by the capitalist nature of America, and the conglomeration trend is a result of that. As it stands right now over 65% of the average newspaper is dedicated to advertising. If the regulations are relaxed further, the responsibility of keeping advertisements out of the news stories themselves becomes more and more difficult. As someone who is active in the media as both a purveyor and a consumer, this concerns me. I would like for my newspapers to be beholden only to the truth and not their corporate owners or their paid advertisers. All things considered I’d like to see the FCC regulations on media ownership tightened, for both fairness to companies who don’t own cable systems, and to keep the media honest. Copyright 2005 |
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by Amanda Evans |
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Date: 02/22/05 |
