August 2003

by Matthew Ford

The Senate has recently begun the process of reversing recent decisions made by the Federal Communications Commission to loosen media ownership rules, which allow massive consolidation of newspaper and broadcasting mega-conglomerates. Legislation, which cleared the Senate Commerce Committee in mid-June, would put a hold on further monopolization of information by restricting individual corporations from "grabbing" even larger shares of the news "market." Why should we care? A clear example can be seen in the "imperialist ambitions," to use policy planner Richard Haass's term, of . . .