Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Tuesday defied opposition from the Bush administration and voted 55-40 to rescind new regulations allowing large media companies to grow even bigger.
Fearing fewer viewpoints and decreasing local news coverage, 12 Republicans joined most of the Democrats to back a resolution that would undo rules narrowly adopted by the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission in June.
Those rules would allow television networks to own more local stations and permitting a company to own a newspaper, television stations and radio outlets in a single market.
The FCC rules do 'not protect the localism and the diversity, particularly in the newspaper-television market,' said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican from Texas."
I told here to say that, or something similar to it, as one of her constituents with access to email. Now I just need to convince them that Clear Channel-sized companies are also not good for radio. Hmm, maybe I could just give them a radio?
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