This past Tuesday, in a 3-2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission relaxed some of the restrictions on media ownership, creating great rancor among public media watchdog groups and a number of concerned United States senators. Under the new changes a company can now own a newspaper and a television station in the same city, something which had not been possible for thirty years. In the...

The telecomm bill has passed and been signed into law. Full text of the Telecommunications Law is available via the Internet. The bill is available in sections (HTML): http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:S.652.ENR: or in its entirety (text): ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c104/s652.enr.txt or FTP to: ftp.loc.gov and change directories to pub/thomas/c104. get s652.enr.txt