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Supreme Court Hears Argument Over Media Ownership Rules

The irony here is that actual conservatives are likely to side with the FCC and the NAB, even though the president said the media is the enemy of the people, and spent his time making it difficult for the media to do its job.
 
The Supreme court pretty much will rule in favor of what the FCC did in 2017 plus across ownership rules are outdated, to begin with, both parties agree but I don't get why the Dems want to keep the rules when they don't like said the rule of cross ownership? Is it just virtue signaling for those that like the rules as is or something?
 
Megatron said:
The Supreme court pretty much will rule in favor of what the FCC did in 2017 plus across ownership rules are outdated, to begin with, both parties agree but I don't get why the Dems want to keep the rules when they don't like said the rule of cross ownership? Is it just virtue signaling for those that like the rules as is or something?
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The key issue to me is that newspapers had an opportunity to survive if combined with local radio and/or TV. The window on that may have already closed, so we will loose more newspapers than ever in the next few years.

Locally, in a market of half a million with much higher than median incomes, the newspaper farmed out production to a plant in Phoenix and cut the staff to just a hand-full of reporters and a few sales people. It's circulation is off by 2/3 in the last 10 years. It used to have interesting and insightful investigative reports and good writing. Today, it has worse coverage than our two larger TV operations and the writing is not even passing in Journalism 101.

Talking with others in different markets, it seems this is the same everywhere. My step-brother was publisher of a daily paper for quite a number of years and I understand that he does not even read that paper any longer.
 
"What's a paper?" I expect our kids to ask that one day.
The two SLC daily papers have ceased printing, except one which is doing a weekly print issue. Not sure where you would purchase it, or if it's a subscription bonus.
 
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