FCC DEREGULATION: The big vote is today, and I have to say I'm a little worried. Not so much because I'm worried about the end of true press freedom. I'm more worried about the crapification of news coverage. There are many positives about corporate-owned media (they have more resources and greater reach), but they also are notorious cost-cutters. If stories you care about don't seem to get covered, I guarantee you it's not because the corporate fat cats have ordered it to be that way so they can preserve "the status quo." It's usually because the allocation of resources for doing more reporting is not in the budget.
I guess we'll have to see how this shakes out in the years ahead. And, of course, we should remember that the FCC's rules could be changed again at some future date.
