Media Access Project, Georgetown University’s Institute for Public Representation, and Free Press filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit today in response to broadcasters’ statutory and constitutional challenges to the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to retain its local television ownership and newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rules.

The brief also describes a number of loopholes within the Commission’s newspaper-broadcast cross ownership rule as adopted under a Bush-era FCC. Finally, the brief points out the Commission’s failure to consider the impacts of its broadcast ownership rules on minority ownership.

Read the brief at http://www.mediaaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/PrometheusReplyBriefFinal.pdf