Who'll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned

Are Rupert Murdoch and his fellow media moguls' happy days numbered? In May, the 'mere mortals' on Capitol Hill gave Murdoch and company the sort of slap that masters of the universe don't expect.

With a voice vote that confirmed the near-unanimous sentiment of senators who had heard from hundreds of thousands of Americans demanding that they act, the legislators moved to nullify a Federal Communications Commission attempt to permit a radical form of media consolidation: a rule change designed to permit one corporation to own daily and weekly newspapers as well as television and radio stations in the same local market.

Read the full story at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080616/mcchesney.