Author: Adelstein, Jonathan S.

Publication Year: 2003

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This paper reflect the remarks made by FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein Before The Media Institute on May 20, 2003.

Abstract:

This paper reflect the remarks made by FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein Before The Media Institute on May 20, 2003.

This is a great day to speak at The Media Institute. We’re on the eve of the most sweeping and potentially destructive overhaul of the FCC’s media rules in the history of American broadcasting. But I’m not sure we really know what we’re about to unleash. I’m fresh off the trail of media ownership hearings Commissioner Copps and I held across the country – the so-called Magical Mystery Tour. One of our participants, Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, spoke before a packed audience at San Francisco’s City Hall. In 1983, when the first edition of his book The Media Monopoly was released, he wrote that, “50 corporations dominated most of every mass medium.” The number then dropped with each new edition – to 29 firms in 1987, 23 in 1990, 14 in 1992 down to 10 in 1997. The 2000 edition found that just six conglomerates were supplying most of America’s media.

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