FCC Proposes Lifting More Rules Against Media Consolidation
In the past several years, the FCC has removed many of the rules that kept companies from buying up too much of our media — our TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers. It used to be that a single corporation could only own a limited number of media outlets. What that meant was that the viewpoints we got about the news were sufficiently diverse so we could get a good idea of the whole picture. But with fewer and fewer corporations buying up all the media outlets — with the FCC’s approval — the news we get is increasingly homogenized.
