Deacon:

What sort of "deacon" are you?

Having watched 1st hand the local radio news rooms and local newspapers get shut down. Along with the freaky era of right-win neonutso TV organizations refusing to announce the names of dead War Heroes. 

I wonder who you are talking for?

I think you sound a lot like a corporate attorney for a Media Conglomerate that buys out small low profit new organizations. 

What do you personally or your employers stand to gain by what your advocating?

Come clean deacon of the what evers & tell us all who you REALLY are ...

This process is being conducted at breakneck speed with only lip service being paid to the required public consultation. The Administration and their operative in the FCC know that if they delay much longer this is going to be a dead issue -- nobody apart from the media conglomerates wants this so there's this indecent haste to ram it through before the window of opportunity closes for a generation.

Dear Mr. Oram
Your article regarding concentration of media into a few hands seems to follow the general guidelines imposed on the electronic and print media.
The giants of media are funded by various financial groups who hold sway in the propaganda operations of the industry. The people operating the various media outlets are far removed from the minutia of propaganda operations; they have title to the properties and manage the physical aspects (commercial sales and technical operations), but have no control over editorial content. In some cases the financial supplier also dictates who the Gnus Director will be (pun intended) thereby insuring that that media property will dispense the correct propaganda.
Now the entire network of affiliated television stations in the U. S. A. that have Gnus Departments receive a style sheet or standards and practices publication every month. These stations are contractually obligated to follow the orders dictated by the network propaganda departments. Hollywood takes care of the propaganda incorporated into the programming.
We in the industry have known for years that a broadcast license was analogous to a license to steal. The principals that have title to the properties could care less about the disinformation that is used to control the American population; they will make a ton of money if they cooperate with the people who make it all happen, the capital markets.
Employee theft is rampant in the broadcast industry and it is in the millions in a mid- size market. The Gnus Director will run a separate operation from the station. This is a complex theft of services from the station that includes producing documentaries, news stories, sports interviews and even sports programming that is sold to various agencies. The station will not receive a penny from these operations.
Commercial production is another venue for employee theft that is aided and abetted by the accounting department as well as the General Manager. The rationale is that the operation supports advertising revenue. Of course the revenue (exceeding 1 million in a mid market) generated here doesn’t go into the station books. Another part of this operation is the duplication of various programs that will be sold on the open market.
Commercial sales are an opportunity for theft on a grand scale. The sales staff sells commercial time that replaces promos, public service announcements, and legitimate commercials on the operating log (the station log is a separate document). The accounting department will run a separate set of books to handle the separate flow of revenue. The general Manager is the prime mover and shaker in this endeavor.
Despite the employee theft, the media giants garner such high profits that it they will overlook misdeeds by the ones who deliver their obscene profits. 
Everyone is fat and happy; the financiers make their money, the misinformation is dispensed, the media owners are happy, the employees are happy and the government is happy.
So why worry about further media concentration; the same people are getting their way and the operation will remain the same no matter how many owners are involved.
The only people who care are the ones waiting to die at the hands of the billionaires who control our governments and gladly lie down and die because they have been convinced it’s the right thing to do.

Deacon