Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After all this talk of our rights, I thought that this might be of interest to our LALUG. Slobodan Dimitrov > > > >The FCC will be holding hearings at USC on February 18th. These hearings > >concern relaxing the rules controlling media ownership. If that happens, > >it will narrow the marketplace considerably and enable fewer and fewer > >corporations to own more and more media outlets in more and more > >markets. By way of example, if the FCC continues going in the direction > >Michael Powell (Director of the FCC and Colin Powell's son) wants it to go > >in, NBC (owned by General Electric) could end up owning the newspapers, > >radio stations and television stations in hundreds or thousands of towns in > >Middle America. > > > >The hearings at USC are a continuation of the hearings that were held a > >couple of weeks ago in New York City. Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy > >Now!, was one of those who testified in New York. > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html