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FCC Chariman Powell and Sen. Byron Dorgan, who opposes the media ownership rule changes the FCC voted in yesterday, on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer: TERENCE SMITH: To explain the new ownership rules, we’re joined by the commission’s chairman, Michael Powell. Commissioner Powell, welcome to the broadcast. Would you make …

Conason on FCC’s Powell in Salon: The driving forces behind Powell, in the White House and the Congress, are indeed highly ideological but hardly conservative in Safire’s sense. Their ideology is corporate conservatism, which treats democracy as a procedural formality that should under no circumstances interfere with the prerogatives of …

Okay, time to own up to a certain lassitude since the war has wound down: there’s still plenty going on, and in many ways this “war after the war” is more important than the war itself because the outcome seems to be much more in doubt. But after the frenzy …

Okay, so the FCC vote to deregulate media ownership is done – now what? Dan Gillmor has some ideas: we have to look at the FCC’s latest policy move in two additional contexts. First, consider the recent spate of mergers and acquisitions by the biggest players, to the point where …

Today the FCC sucks Big Media ass through razor wire: An ideologically fractured Federal Communications Commission plans to vote along party lines today to relax or eliminate some key media ownership rules, allowing a newspaper to own a television station in the same city and broadcast networks to buy more …

Steve Lohr has interesting analysis in the NY Times: The future involves using the Internet to deliver commercial program content, mainly movies and music, to consumers who are equipped with a growing array of digital devices to receive it, from personal computers to digital televisions to smart cellphones. And the …

George Ziemann with some interesting history: Eastman Kodak agreed to sell filmstock only to authorised producers. The MPPC took over all but one of America’s film distributors. The courts upheld Edison’s claims that most of the film cameras in use infringed his patents. Then Edison got too pushy. The MPPC …

Turner opposes FCC media ownership deregulation: On Monday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to adopt dramatic rule changes that will extend the market dominance of the five media corporations that control most of what Americans read, see and hear. I am a major shareholder in the largest of …

Hey now, we are flattered and honored to be given the thumbs up by the coolest music trade going, bar none, HITS (what, you think Billboard is cool?). Check out their smoking hot HITS Daily Double column daily. Here’s the Blogcritics salute from the hypercool Roy Trakin: Blogcritics.org: Some of …

Hardly, with at least three paid moles for Saddam: On Tuesday, when al Jazeera fired its director general, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, the world was reminded once again of one significant reason–Saddam Hussein’s regime infiltrated media outlets throughout the region, including al Jazeera. According to a dispatch from Agence France Presse, …