{"id":28164,"date":"2012-06-07T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/suppressing-a-report-on-media-ownership.html"},"modified":"2012-06-07T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:35:02","slug":"suppressing-a-report-on-media-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/suppressing-a-report-on-media-ownership.html","title":{"rendered":"Suppressing a report on media ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm. \u00a0In 2003, the FCC allowed fewer companies to own more media outlets, saying it wouldn&#39;t hurt local news coverage. In 2004, facing pushback, the FCC commissioned a report on the matter. When the report showed, as a draft, the opposite &#8212; that more media ownership consolidation hurt local news &#8212; the FCC tried to round up every copy and had them destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm &#8230; wonder why &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115056313943520401920'>Brandon Sergent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14836500\/#.T9Czv7WTIqZ'>Media ownership study ordered destroyed<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawye&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/RBg722jUEb4' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm. \u00a0In 2003, the FCC allowed fewer companies to own more media outlets, saying it wouldn&#39;t hurt local news coverage. In 2004, facing pushback, the FCC commissioned a report on the matter. When the report showed, as a draft, the opposite &#8212; that more media ownership consolidation hurt local news &#8212; the FCC tried to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/suppressing-a-report-on-media-ownership.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suppressing a report on media ownership&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12285,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/no_dvr_recordings_of_movi.html","url_meta":{"origin":28164,"position":0},"title":"No DVR recordings of movies for you!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jun-08 1:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The MPAA has gotten an accelerated hearing with the FCC to allow production companies to flag hi-def movies on cable from being recorded by DVRs. 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