Copps (FCC) Calls Dereg Dangerous

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Copps Calls Dereg Dangerous

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/26/2004 6:45:00 PM

Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps said media deregulation is “dangerous,” news and entertainment have deteriorated, public-interest protections have “weakened and withered” and TV stations’ service to their local communities must be measured by more than blood drives and fund-raisers.

In remarks Copps planned to give at an FCC hearing on broadcast localism in South Dakota Wednesday night, the Democratic commissioner said American communications has deteriorated under deregulation.

“We are paying a terrible cost, both in the kinds of homogenized entertainment Big Media sends our way and in the news and information upon which our democratic dialog depends,” he said.

Copps, the commission’s most outspoken media critic, told the community members in attendance that he wanted to know whether they thought local broadcasters were airing too much sex and violence.

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1. The story here is the press covering up for Bush's lies about Iraq

The NY Times is not a broadcaster, but the whole media functioned as a state-propaganda-apparatus. This would be a good Moveon.org promotion.