http://blog.customscoop.com/mb/2008/04/dont-relegate-media-to-failure-through-regulation.html Helping Communicators do More with Less Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://blog.customscoop.com/mb/2008/04/dont-relegate-media-to-failure-through-regulation.html#comment-519 Ian Muir Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:05:58 +0000 http://www.mediabullseye.com/?p=367#comment-519 I think that we should go back to a town crier based news distribution system. We really don't need all of these fancy computers and printed materials to replace what a young man with a good strong voice can do. It seems that the FCC had the right idea. It provides all media involved with more power to gather and explore news stories and provides a way to balance advertising revenues across media outlets. From reading a few other posts, it looks like people are worried about larger companies banding together to push out the smaller media outlets. Maybe congress doesn't realize that the average American probably gets their news from multiple sources, both large and small, and this kind of thing isn't really protecting anybody who needs it. I think that we should go back to a town crier based news distribution system. We really don’t need all of these fancy computers and printed materials to replace what a young man with a good strong voice can do.
It seems that the FCC had the right idea. It provides all media involved with more power to gather and explore news stories and provides a way to balance advertising revenues across media outlets.
From reading a few other posts, it looks like people are worried about larger companies banding together to push out the smaller media outlets. Maybe congress doesn’t realize that the average American probably gets their news from multiple sources, both large and small, and this kind of thing isn’t really protecting anybody who needs it.

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