Public Policy - Update
Area: Media, Communications
New Campaign Exposes Covert Consolidation in Newsrooms
SavetheNews.org launches ‘Change the Channels’ to show how hundreds of TV stations are circumventing ownership limits and outsourcing local news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: June 22, 2011
Contact: Jenn Ettinger, 202-265-1490 x 35
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, SavetheNews.org launched “Change the Channels,” a new campaign focused on exposing the new face of media consolidation. Across the country, hundreds of TV stations have quietly merged newsrooms, circumventing the Federal Communications Commission’s media ownership limits at the expense of independent, local journalism.
Full article, go to:
http://www.freepress.net/press-release/2011/6/22/new-campaign-exposes-covert-consolidation-newsrooms?akid=2601.9316298.g_0wH-&rd=1&t=3
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