This time, the FCC is under additional pressure from the U.S. District Court in Washington, which has tossed out five of the agency's ownership rules in recent years. The court has told the FCC it must better justify why the ownership rules should remain.
....Joining CodePink and the NRA in opposing further consolidation is L. Brent Bozell III's conservative Parents Television Council, which says that the media oligopoly has contributed to a coarsening of television programming.
....Other socially conservative or religious groups, such as the Traditional Values Coalition, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Family Research Council and Morality in the Media, have weighed in against further media consolidation, generally on indecency grounds and fears that more media mergers will mean less good television for children. [Washington Post]
Read the entire article for a good overvoew of what is at stake here and what the probable ramifications of the action are. Re CodePink and the NRA: sometimes two wrongs make a right.
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