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Bipartisan Senators Push to Block Media Ownership Rules

HeadlineMar 06, 2008

In news from Capitol Hill, a group of fourteen Democratic and Republican senators have introduced a resolution to block the Federal Communications Commission from easing media-ownership rules in the nation’s twenty largest cities. Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan criticized the FCC for ignoring thousands of comments from citizens opposing further media consolidation.

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