Newspaper Lobby Wants Senate Bill Blocked

NEWSPAPER LOBBY WANTS SENATE BILL BLOCKED
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
The Newspaper Association of America is trying to block a Senate bill that would postpone a Dec. 18 vote at the Federal Communications Commission that would relax the ban on the ownership of newspapers and TV stations in the same local market. “I urge you to derail any legislative attempts to derail the FCC’s Dec. 18 vote,” said NAA president John Strum in a letter Monday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “The maintenance of this 32-year-old rule ignores cable television, the Internet, satellite television, satellite radio, podcasting, blogs, cell phones and all the other ways people can get information,” Strum said.
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