Cross-Ownership Heats Up

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WASHINGTON Relaxing federal rules on cross-ownership of daily newspapers and nearby broadcast media would leave public debate vulnerable to domination by few voices in communities in 12 states, anti-consolidation groups said today.

Also Thursday, an industry-funded think tank told regulators the cross-ownership rule is “pointless” in an age of media abundance marked by multiple TV and Internet news outlets not present when the regulation was imposed in 1975.

The perspectives are part of the battle surrounding the rewriting of key ownership restrictions by the Federal Communications Commission, which is not expected to reach any conclusions until next year.



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