> The conclusion of this paper from 2001 supports revoking the rules, or at least that the rules aren’t necessary for their stated goal of providing diverse opinions
Hmm... From reading your quote, it sounds to me like it's saying that the rules are working properly. What these changes are going to allow is a single company with a known one-sided agenda to buy up all media in several markets. How will that work out?
The study looked at three cities where the newspaper and radio station were owned by the same company (“cross-ownership”), due to having been grandfathered in when the FCC rule was created in 1975.
The FCC revoked multiple rules, but one of those prevented cross-ownership. The stated goal of all of the rules was to encourage a diversity of views. At least with respect to the cross-ownership rule, this study found it wasn’t necessary for a diversity of views to exist.
Hmm... From reading your quote, it sounds to me like it's saying that the rules are working properly. What these changes are going to allow is a single company with a known one-sided agenda to buy up all media in several markets. How will that work out?