FCC Commish Laments State Of Broadcast Journalism at USC Cronkite Awards

FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who has come out as an unapologetic voice against media consolidation, spoke at USC’s Walter Cronkite Award ceremony for broadcast journalism this week–where he basically said that while the award recipients present were doing solid work, they were in the minority. According to Copps, media consolidation has put good broadcast journalists out of work, and switched the emphasis from hard-hitting local reporting to eyeball-catching fluff.