Here is the FCC report on media consolidation that was ordered destroyed.

[atommom]

Someone saved and posted it on the internets. It was ordered destroyed because it concluded that local control of stations would result in better news coverage.

http://www.freepress.net/docs/fcclocalnews.pdf

[napi21]

1. Oh darn! That damn internets!!! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

2. What does FCC stand for? For Corporate Control. n/t

[ellenfl]

3. k&r eom

[atommom]

4. For background, here's the HuffPo piece explaining what happened.

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, according to a story by the AP's John Dunbar.

Former FCC attorney 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.

The FCC staff analysis showed local ownership of television stations adds almost five and one-half minutes of total news to broadcasts and more than three minutes of "on-location" news. The conclusion is at odds with FCC arguments made when it voted in 2003 to increase the number of television stations a company could own in a single market. It was part of a broader decision liberalizing ownership rules.

The research undercut then-Chairman Michael K. Powell's ideological crusade to loosen and eliminate media ownership limits, which would have allowed large national congloms to buy up even more local media. At that time the report was written, the FCC was publicly proclaiming the evidence showed that "commonly owned television stations are more likely to carry local news than other stations" - a conclusion refuted by the FCC's own research, which it then destroyed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-rintels/fcc-report-says-media-con_b_29452.html

[atommom]

5. kick

[Crunchy Frog]

6. K&R.

They were doing a piece about this on NPR today, which I heard while driving. I hope more people will get a chance to see it.

[texpatriot2004]

7. Link doesn't work for me nm

[atommom]

8. Hmmm. It worked just now. Maybe try again? nt

[Eric J in MN]

9. Maybe you need to upgrade your Adobe Acrobat Reader

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

[texpatriot2004]

11. Apparently, thanks for the help nm

[tk2kewl]

10. .

[derby378]

12. And don't forget what corporate media did to squelch reports on rBGH

Remember Steve Wilson and Jane Akre? They were the investigative reporters from a Florida TV station who were all set to broadcast a report linking rBGH in milk to a possible rise in cancer cases. But FOX News owned that station, and Monsanto (creators of rBGH) had its lawyers send a fax to FOX News warning that the story must not air. So Wilson and Akre got screwed around by the station manager at the FOX affiliate until they got fired for refusing to knuckle under.

[FoxOnTheRun]

13. centralization is helpful ....

Bush: "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

[madmusic]

14. Damn, too late to K&R

[Raster]

15. Kicked!

[Subdivisions]

16. Kick

[derby378]

17. Kicked!

Why kick it so late? Because every single DUer should have a chance to see this.

Thanks, atommom! I just shared this with the John Courage and Barbara Ann Radnofsky campaigns down in Texas.

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