All Rupert, All Channels?

by biverson | October 29, 2007 at 07:28 am

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FCC commissioner Copps is speaking out about the Murdoch-controlled News Corp's plans to buy the Wall Street Journal even though the FCC as a whole has been mum on the deal because WSJ is considered a national, rather than a local or city paper. Here is what the commissioner said:

"If approved, this transaction would leave News Corp. in control of a Big Four broadcast network and two of the nation's five largest newspapers (as well as a vast collection of cable channels, satellite networks, motion picture studios and publishing outlets)," Mr. Copps said in his letter. "For residents of the local New York metropolitan area, it will also mean that a single company operates two of the area's most popular television stations and two of its most popular newspapers," he said

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