{"id":208,"date":"2003-05-12T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/05\/12\/rally-the-troops\/"},"modified":"2003-05-12T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T02:03:12","slug":"rally-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/05\/12\/rally-the-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally the Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a50'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s finals time, and I just lost my first attempt at this post, because I forgot to put in a title.&nbsp; But, I want to alert you to the fact that June 2 is D-Day &#8212; the day when the FCC announces its new media ownership caps in local markets.&nbsp; Professor Lessig is charting the mobilzation to counteract increasing the percentage caps on his <A href=\"http:\/\/cyberlaw.stanford.edu\/lessig\/blog\/\"><STRONG>blog<\/STRONG><\/A>, and he details the dangers of further deregulating the ownership rules.&nbsp; Believe me, the effects of further media consolidation, which he describes, read like a horror script, so you shouldn&#8217;t let Michael Powell give away your local news to the likes of Rupert Murdoch. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>As the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\"><EM>SF Bay Guardian<\/EM><\/A><EM>, <\/EM>an indie weekly in SF pointed out, when the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/37\/31\/news_ed_hall.html\">FCC held a hearing<\/A> on the ownership caps in SF on April 26, none of the major news outlets in the Bay Area, covered the event.&nbsp; As it stands, the only daily paper in San Francisco, <EM>The Chronicle<\/EM>, is owned by the Hearst Corp, which will stand to benefit greatly from further deregulation.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Also, I just wanted to point out the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/clear_channel\/\">Clear Channel example<\/A>&nbsp;of how deregulation of radio, under Clinton, has killed off the diversity of radio in America.&nbsp; The fact that this started under the last president, shows that neither party has clean hands in this matter.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finals time, and I just lost my first attempt at this post, because I forgot to put in a title.&nbsp; But, I want to alert you to the fact that June 2 is D-Day &#8212; the day when the FCC announces its new media ownership caps in local markets.&nbsp; Professor Lessig is charting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}