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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Robert McChesney
[mailto:list@freepress.net]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:04
AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Stop Media Consolidation in Texas<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=body>The Federal Communications Commission and industry
lobbyists are trying to let huge media companies get even bigger by
resurrecting the same rule changes that millions of Americans
rejected in 2003.
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<P class=body>Last week, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin began the process
of relaxing ownership rules. If he prevails, we will see the further
demise of local news, independent voices and critical journalism.
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<P class=body>In 2003, your letters and calls stopped this nonsense.
Now we need to do it again.
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<P class=body align=center><B><A
href="http://www.stopbigmedia.com/comment.php">Tell the FCC that Big
Media is Big Enough</A></B>
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<P class=body>This is the first step in Chairman Martin's calculated
effort to gut some of the last remaining limits on media ownership.
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<P class=body>When the FCC last tried to change these rules under
then-Chairman Michael Powell, some 3 million people contacted the
FCC and Congress to oppose the action. The rule changes were later
overturned by the courts, sending the FCC back to the drawing board.
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<P class=body>Now Chairman Martin -- backed by the biggest media
giants -- is angling to eliminate the newspaper-broadcast
"cross-ownership" ban that prevents a single conglomerate from
owning the major daily newspaper as well as radio and TV stations in
a single market. And he wants to lift local ownership caps on how
many TV stations one company can own in your town.
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<P class=body>If these rule changes were approved, one company could
own the major paper, eight radio stations and three television
stations in the same city.
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<P class=body>A handful of huge companies already control nearly all
of the media in America. Such concentration destroys local news,
sidelines dissenting views, and stifles competition. When we allow
one company to own everything, we lose the diversity of views that
is the lifeblood of our democracy.
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<P class=body align=center><B><A
href="http://www.stopbigmedia.com/comment.php">Take Action To Stop
Big Media: Send Your Comments to the FCC</A></B>
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<P class=body>Today, a diverse alliance of groups launched the <A
href='http://www.stopbigmedia.com"'>www.StopBigMedia.com</A>
Coalition to make sure that the public voice is heard before
Washington policymakers sell what's left of the local and
independent media.
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<P class=body>The only way we'll win is to flood the FCC docket with
more than a million public comments opposing further media
consolidation.
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<P class=body>Your action today makes a difference.
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<P class=body>Onward,
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<P class=body>Robert W. McChesney<BR>President<BR>Free
Press<BR>www.freepress.net
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<P class=body>P.S. Help get a million public comments into the FCC.
Forward this email to five friends and ask them to take action now.
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<P class=body>P.P.S. For more on what's at stake, read FCC
Commissioner Michael Copps' commentary in the <EM>Financial
Times</EM>: <A
href="http://www.freepress.net/news/16168">www.freepress.net/news/16168</A>
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