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WASHINGTON The FCC’s senior Democrat is pushing the agency’s Republican chairman to open a special proceeding to investigate issues surrounding News Corp.’s $5.6 billion purchase of The Wall Street Journal.
Citing the deal’s impact on “localism, diversity and competition” in the New York market, commissioner Michael Copps told chairman Kevin Martin that the deal deserved special attention.
“I believe that the FCC’s obligation to consider the public interest—which the agency has traditionally defined as localism, diversity and competition—requires us to consider the implications of a merger between these two media giants,” Copps wrote in a letter Thursday.
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