Media_Monopolies

Media Monopolies In this article “Unshackling Big Media” we see a man by the name of Micheal Powell, son of Colin Powell and more importantly chairman of the FCC is battling against huge media enterprise monopolies. Powell was elected back in January and at this point has a powerful republican behind him, George W. Bush. Being the head of the FCC holds many responsibilities including stopping these huge enterprises from all taking over television and having these corporations constantly at your throat. Currently the FCC has these companies at a halt with its rules and regulations and these companies don’t want to give up until they have it all or at least nearly it all. These companies are trying to find ways around current rules such as “Thou shalt not own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market” and “Thou shalt not own a television station that, collectively reaches more than 35% of the nation’s households.” The FCC also states that none of the four major networks Fox, NBC, ABC or CBS can buy each other out. The FCC believes if one company is controlling the media then the public will only see one side of a view and television, station, smaller, people, networks, fcc, stations, media, bigger, powerful, powell, one, money, journalism, companies, believe, being, same, rules, own, news, needs, getting, compete, company, believes, whether, view, thou, thinks, things, survive, states, start, significant