Public Forum: Media Consolidation Threatens Democracy

[March 10, 2004] The concentration of media ownership by an increasingly smaller number of global corporate conglomerates poses a threat to democracy, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter told a standing-room only audience at a Town Meeting on Media Ownership and the Pubic Airwaves held at St. John Fisher College Monday March 8.

Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein -- one of the two commissioners who opposed the ownership rules changes passed by the FCC last June -- agreed, noting that the major corporate media have done very little to make the public aware of the issues that these changes have raised.


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