IP: "The Urge to Merge"

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:31:10 
To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: "The Urge to Merge"

Who controls the news? After court rulings this week, doors are wide
open for new deals that could make the Rupert Murdock/Sumner Redstone
world of media magnates even smaller. With fewer and fewer people
deciding what stories get covered on radio and TV and in the papers,
some say cross-media monopolies are undermining the market. If the
only thing keeping editors honest is competition, what's to prevent a
500-channel, but one-view world?

Supposedly, the FCC; the organization charged with protecting the
public and keeping stories like Citizen Kane from coming true. But
the new FCC chairman thinks more free market and less regulation is
good for the economy and good for you. The leaner, meaner media,
mergers and the FCC

Guests:   Blair Levin, media analyst with Legg Mason and former chief 
of staff for the FCC; Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer 
Federation of America.


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