Larry Lessig Blog on New FCC Media Rules
Larry Lessig Blog on New FCC Media Rules
May 13, 2003
Lessig Blog to study New FCC Rules on Media Concentration
Excerpt:
"On June 2, the FCC is scheduled to release new rules governing media ownership. The expectation is that the revised rules will remove limits on media concentration. The consequence of that change will be an extraordinary increase [in]concentration, in an already concentrated industry.
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Surprisingly or not, the issue of media concentration is not being covered adequately by the media — that same media that will be affected by the changes in these rules. So that makes this ripe for the media in this space.
I’ve got a bunch of stories and statistics to report, and will. But this is something we need many many voices to report. Where else will the news not fit to print get printed — except in weblog space?"
For my part, I find it disturbing that Google may be limiting the influence of the Blog Media at the same time as the FCC is increasing the concentration of Big Media.
