Slaves to Wall Street

[Radknowski]

It is not my intention to violate the TOS of the board by posting the following articlefrom Radio & Records. I attempted to create a link, but was unsuccessful. The article and comments are most pertinent and having given credit to Radio & Records, I hope the mods allow it to stand.

Copps: Broadcasters 'Captives' Of Wall Street
-By Jeffrey Yorke, Radio & Records, 6/29/07

FCC commissioner Michael Copps (pictured), speaking to the audience at the public hearing on media ownership held in Portland, Maine, Thursday night (June 28), said he believes that many broadcasters "still have that flame to serve the public interest burning in their breasts" but that "there aren't as many of them now -- there aren't as many station owners any more because of consolidation." [EDIT]
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[Mike_Saffran]

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's and each of the commissioners' unedited statements from the June 28 localism hearing, in Portland, Maine, can be read at www.fcc.gov.

Mike

 

[Radknowski]

Thanks for the collegial response, genuinely appreciated. Here is the direct link to FCC Commissioner Copps' comments and Chairman Martin's comments. I think the texts shed an interesting light on the perspective of the individual Commissioners and what appears to be a Commission that is reconsidering the stance and position it took ten or twelve years ago.