Comments on Reichert Co-Sponsors Anti-Media Consolidation Legislation with Inslee

It’s in The Seattle Times interest to kill the FCC’s proposal to ease restrictions on media cross ownership, because the PI’s super rich owner, Hearst, will be able to exploit the changes and dominate the market.

The relaxed rule allows a newspaper owner to own a station, if it's not one of the top 4 stations in the market. I'd hardly call a newspaper also owning the 5th largest TV station in a market "domination."

A recent LA Times op-ed delivered a deserved skewering to the media consolidation scaremongers.

"huffing and puffing, self-righteous lefties"

No chance they could have been concerned Americans, huh Josh?

Typical right wing hit piece, is this meant to be ironic or provocative? Avoid the issue and attack the proponents. Everyone knows the Seattle Times has an interest. We hardly get any coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan now, how much more evidence do you need that consolidation is already too high? Remember the quality of the reporting in the 2004 election? How about Blackwater, don't hear much about that onimous threat? Does Cheney still have those Haliburton options? Dep't of Homeland Security has absolutely nothing to show for the billions it's spent? Weren't we going to reform the Electoral College? Should Administration officials be allowed to leave their post and take a job at a lobbying firm or one its clients the same week, are we ever going to close this loophole that's destroying all credibility in government?

You really, really have to work to get any news of any substance in this country, and the collective ignorance led to the re-election of the worst President ever? Have you watched No End in Sight Josh? I don't want to give away the ending, but Rumsfeld and Bremmer should be tried on treason charges. Who the fuck is reporting on that? Yeah, the Seattle Times is editorializing on the fact that the head of the FCC is loosening the rules to make it worse - in the middle of the night and no doubt with the assistance of lawyers for the parties to benefit the most.

If you want an example of hackery, look no further that the LA Times editorial linked above written by the assistant to the editor. Oh, the great independent voice of Jim Rome. Hey, there's this other thing called an oligopoly, and it can be just as bad as a monopoly. Ever wonder why the price at the pump jumps the same day the price on the spot market does? That's the delicious freedom of oligopoly. JFC.

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