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Media Monopoly?

A Critique of the FCC's Media Deregulation Plans

  • In-Person
  • New America
    740 15th St NW #900
    Washington, D.C. 20005
  • 12:05PM EDT

On June 2 the FCC is expected to issue rules on media ownership with long-term and fundamental consequences for our culture, economy, and democracy. These rules cover the ownership of local radio and television broadcasters, national broadcast networks, and newspapers. The senators, FCC commissioners, and panelists discussed their various concerns about the media consolidation that would ensue following release of the FCC’s expected rules.

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Location

Russell Senate Office Building, Room 428A

Washington, DC

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Participants

  • Byron Dorgan
    U.S. Senator (D-ND)

  • Ernest Hollings
    Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

  • Ron Wyden
    United States Senator (D-OR)

  • Michael Copps
    Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

  • Jonathan Adelstein
    Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

  • James Fallows
    Chairman, New America Foundation

  • Jim Goodmon
    CEO and President, Capitol Broadcasting Company

  • Mark Cooper
    Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America

  • Jenny Toomey
    Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition

  • Edwin Baker
    Nicholas F. Gallichio Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

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