The Changing Media Policy in the Obama Administration

The buzz over President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Secretary of State is reaching a fever pitch. But plenty of people are just as interested in some less high-profile appointments. Obama will have a chance to dramatically remake the Federal Communications Commission. And that new FCC will make decisions on everything from media consolidation to access to the Internet. Those are issues that Robert McChesney follows closely. He's a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-founder of the media reform organization, Free Press. Robert McChesney joined us to talk about how media policy may change in an Obama administration.