Sounds like someone else has been influenced by their "news" as well. Wow talk about a pubescient rant about americans... lol Geta clue and a life.. there is no one bangin on the doors to get into your country moron.. lol YAY FOR SOCIAL STATES that garnish 50% of your income .... get a blinking clue

i thought most would have known about this even their FDA approves drugs which damage people so why would anyone care about the news.

"this last-minute immunity for Big Media is a slap in the face to the American people."

Oh please, Americans don't care where things come from anymore, least of all the news.

Let's think about America...
They've got poisoned food,
shopping mall shooting sprees,
rigged elections,
a daddy named China who gives his children deadly toys,
major cities which are flooded then the inhabitants are stuck in formaldehyde trailers and left for dead,
a dangerously old infrastructure that is decaying,
gay priests (no offense to gay people),
and to top it off the average American looks like Bhudda and makes about 30K a year.

The whole idea that the American people (an imaginative term at best) are feeling the pain of Big Media's consolidation and greed is so funny it nearly brings me to tears, really. 

Do you honestly think that the American people care if they are (ha, ha) in danger of being misled due to consolidation of news interests?

You've got to be kidding. The story content is alright, but tomorrow when you are reading about the next "American Corporate Government top ten Greedy actions of the day..." please remember that there is no such thing as an indignant American.

Or non-american...(dont have anything against the people (generally), but the people in charge/outside appearance, yes)
And while this move is terrifying for those in the US, for reasons that anyone with half a brain can see (and as always, the more you know, the more you're scared), it is also frightening for the rest of the world. The US *heavily* influences the rest of the worlds countries national policies (drug law, copyright, oil, etc). Hopefully nothing like this will propagate to other nations...
Even scarier, however, is that the US has been on a downward trend for awhile, with the corruption of ancient rome, the imperialism of Britain before the fall, and the social control psycho-state of nazi germany. And with their big guns, a lot of innocent people could get hurt when they start to really collapse/get desperate/need to distract the people from their real problems.
Im an optimist, though, and hopefully the American People will stand up to this bull****
Kinda funny that in Canada we get farther and farther apart from US policy, even though they are right next door.....does that say anything?

The more big media tightens its grip on the old media, the more new media (The Internet) will grow in the face of their oppression. I already look to sites and blogs for all of my news, so will the next generation.

Let em take their win and shove it.

The author speaks to power on the most critical issue in IT, namely who controls access to our 'series of tubes', our cell networks, our airwaves, even our print media. In the words of Barbara Boxer, 'elections have consequences'.

You may not have thought of this....the seamy consequence of letting just anyone publish a hack-rag...The Inquirer could start podcasting again at any time...I can already hear it now: The Everywhere Girl is Having My Baby! Stay tuned... : )

That such a thing as the FCC can exist at all in a supposedly "free society" is embarrassing. How can 5 people hold the fate of an entire communications infrastructure in their hands? This smacks of oligarchy.

The only answer is to abolish the FCC and have either no regulation (anarchy of the airwaves), or a democratically elected representative body which oversees communications policy.

The FCC was created to regulate radio waves and spectrum. Since they can't even do that, how can we give them the power to regulate telecoms and cable?

The current situation is untenable. No "democracy" can survive under the current system.

That is screwed up above. In the final days of the Bush administration we are seeing a last minute run at all of the changes that will be made. Yep I voted them in as a Republican, and I will be voting them out. It just amazes me that in the end, everyone makes a run at the money.....forget the little guy, forget what the population wants to see. I personally want to see diversity in local broadcasting, diversity in ownership and a ban on one firm owning all of the news assets in a locality.

The good news is it will be an expensive ride for any media company to go down this path when decisions come out preventing this in the future.

that it appears most people still turn to their local TV station or newspaper for "news".

there is so little real news from those outlets anymore, mostly fluff and eye poping headlines, but little real meat to follow.


rotten in the state of Denmark.