Put Down Your Shoe, Join the Fight for Better Media
Free Press just launched Whack-a-Murdoch a Web game that let’s you hit back at the big companies that air such bad programming.
While Whack-a-Murdoch is only a game, media consolidation is a problem that requires our urgent attention. Right now, the Federal Communications Commission is rushing to make sweeping changes to media ownership rules that would allow big media companies like Murdoch’s News Corp. to get even bigger.
The last time the federal agency attempted to do this, in 2003 under former Chairman Michael Powell, more than two million Americans spoke out against it..
What’s At Stake
If the FCC is successful and eliminates these safeguards, moguls like Murdoch could own the major daily newspaper, and as many as eight radio stations and three TV stations in a single city. Often these local monopolies are the same companies that control national newspapers, popular Internet sites, cable networks magazines, movie studios and publishing houses.
When we let a few conglomerates control so many outlets, quality journalism gives way to junk media, news and information to celebrity fluff, and our democracy suffers.
What You Can Do
Protest to the FCC
Call on Congress to Hold Hearings on Media Ownership.
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“media consolidation is a problem that requires our urgent attention”
I disagree 100%. The “threat” of “media consolidation” is a favorite bugaboo of the Left.
When I was younger, there were excellent radio stations playing varied music.
Gradually, they were taken over by large companies who ‘updated’ them so we heard the same music on each one.
With media consolidation, it can only get worse.
btw – I’m neither left nor right.
I sort of understand your POV — but you have to admit that there has NEVER been a better time than now to find, purchase, download, and listen to a greater variety of music than previous generations could even dream of.
I agree, it’s a dream come true. My son spends a ton of time (and hd space) downloading and compiling music.
For me, I don’t have the time.
But, I enjoy listening to music. I like to be introduced to new artists or tracks that are not the same ole same ole that stations keep dragging out.
I used to go to Pandora, but they put new rules in place for those living in Thailand and other non western countries.