{"id":135193,"date":"2017-10-26T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135193"},"modified":"2017-10-27T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:40:12","slug":"needs-diverse-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/needs-diverse-voices.html","title":{"rendered":"Because who needs diverse voices?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US has had powerful restrictions on media outlets — newspapers and television stations — for several decades. Though they have been tweaked and made a bit less restrictive over the years, they have continued ensure that single media companies, or a small number of mega-companies, cannot take over the nation’s broadcasting and print journalism.<\/p>\n

Ajit Pai thinks that’s silly, and is single-handedly, as head of the FCC, dismantling those protections. Because what could go wrong with a single company owning multiple news stations in a particular market, or companies distributing broadcast local news from a centralized out-of-state source, or companies owning newspapers everywhere?<\/i> How could that possibly impact the quality and diversity of the information that American need now more than ever?<\/p>\n

Fiddlesticks. says Commissioner Pai. Business efficiency and hamstringing the government against restricting oligarchies are clearly far more important causes than that.<\/p>\n


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\nAjit Pai submits plan to allow more media consolidation<\/a><\/span>
\nRules that preserve media diversity in local markets will be eliminated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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