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- New reports question media consolidation
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  The reports released Monday by two private groups, the Benton Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, seek to counter the Federal Communications Commission's contention that consolidation would improve programming.
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- Media ownership study ordered destroyed
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Corporate ownership of the media is how business is done in the U.S.: Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that "every last piece" of the report be destroyed. "The whole project was just stopped - end of discussion," he said.
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- Lawyer Says FCC Ordered Study Destroyed
  Posted by Billbar from American Free Press
  The 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 lawyer at the agency says. The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
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- FCC queries 77 stations, on 'fake news' story
  Posted by Billbar from Boston Herald
  The FCC sent 42 letters to 77 broadcast license-holders whose use of video news releases is in question following an April report on “fake TV news” by two media watchdog groups, the Center for Media Democracy in Wisconsin, and Free Press in Northampton. “The public is misled by individuals who present themselves to be independent unbiased experts or reporters, but are actually shills promoting a prepackaged corporate agenda,” FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said in a statement.
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- Appeals court backs FCC on Bell network access
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Under the new rules for the residential market, the big carriers, known as the Baby Bells, would no longer have to provide the access to their networks that has allowed rivals to serve homes at a low price.
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- Appeals Court Sides With White House on Wiretaps
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  The court ruled 2-1 in favor of the Federal Communications Commission, which says equipment used for broadband Internet access must be able to accommodate police wiretaps under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, known as CALEA.
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- FCC plans relaxation of media ownership rules
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  The proposed rule would dissolve a longstanding policy that prohibited corporations from owning a television station and a daily newspaper in the same market. The "cross ownership" rule, promulgated in 1975, was enacted to ensure media diversity.
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