{"id":39,"date":"2003-06-04T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/amytest\/2003\/06\/04\/fcc-now-its-a-story\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:19:09","slug":"fcc-now-its-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2003\/06\/04\/fcc-now-its-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC: Now It&#8217;s A Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a23\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funny how things work. Now that the FCC media ownership vote is past, it&#8217;s getting lots of press. Is it a case of &#8220;it ain&#8217;t over till it&#8217;s over?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A10135-2003Jun3.html?referrer=emailSeveral\">(FCC Rule Fight Continues in Congress)<\/a> or a case of &#8220;closing the barn door after the cows have left?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/6009861.htm\">(FCC media ownership vote dealt blow to democracy<br \/>\n)<\/a>. Choose your cliche.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Clay Shirkey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/writings\/fcc_inequality.html\">The FCC, Weblogs, and Inequalilty <\/a>makes some interesting points about inequality and media. Says Shirkey,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the aftermath of the FCC ruling, and given what we have learned from the development of weblogs, the debate on media concentration can now be sharpened to a single question: if inequality is a fact of life, even in diverse and free systems, what should our reaction be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He argues the tradeoffs are: Diverse. Free. Equal. Pick two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how things work. Now that the FCC media ownership vote is past, it&#8217;s getting lots of press. Is it a case of &#8220;it ain&#8217;t over till it&#8217;s over?&#8221; (FCC Rule Fight Continues in Congress) or a case of &#8220;closing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2003\/06\/04\/fcc-now-its-a-story\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FCC: Now It&#8217;s A Story<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}