MAP and Diverse Coalition Urge FCC to Keep Ownership Limits
Posted: Monday October 23, 2006
Media Access Project and coalition of public interest, media reform and community media advocates filed comments in the FCC’s broadcast ownership proceeding, urging the Commission to protect localism and diversity by retaining the current broadcast ownership limits. “This proceeding is about peoples’ right to receive all sorts of information and opinions from all sorts of people,” said Parul Desai, Assistant Director of Media Access Project. “Without the current rules, a small number of media executives will be in charge of deciding what information the public has a right to receive.”
Read the comments