FCC Renews Deeply Principled Battle to Help Rupert Murdoch Make More Money

Remember two years ago when consumer groups helped defeat a Federal Communications Commission attempt to loosen media cross-ownership restrictions, so that powerful media companies would be able to own even bigger chunks of various media in local markets? Remember how it pitted cynical conglomerates like Tribune Co. — which would crush smaller media in competing markets if the legislation was passed — against outraged lefties who fear big companies controlling larger and larger percentages of the information and entertainment they are presented with?