*shakes head*
The assault on individual rights continues.
What the hell does the FCC have to do with local journalism? Under what authority?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/business/media/09press.html?_r=1&ref=media
A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned
On Thursday, Mr. Steven Waldman, a former journalist for Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report, is to issue a number of recommendations, none binding. Those include making actual in-the-field reporting a part of the curriculum at journalism schools, steering more government advertising money toward local instead of national media and changing the tax code to encourage donations to nonprofit media organizations.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/57454752/FCC-Report-THE-INFORMATION-NEEDS-OF-COMMUNITIES
THE INFORMATION NEEDSOF COMMUNITIES
The changing media landscapein a broadband age
Steven Waldman and the Working Group on Information Needs of Communities
June 2011