FCC Comr. Copps will be among participants at Washington news con...
FCC Comr. Copps will be among participants at Washington news conference March 15 in effort to influence Commission to retain broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership ban. Following Copps, panel members will discuss why they believe ban against same licensee owning TV-radio and…
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newspaper in same market should be kept in place. Many such dual ownerships exist under grandfather clauses and waiver of rule. Panelists include Md. U. Journalism Prof. Douglas Gomery, Mark Cooper of Consumer Federation of America, 6-time Emmy winner Belva Davis, Stephen Kimber, who resigned as columnist for Halifax Daily News (Canada) because of alleged censorship; Wade Henderson of Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Edward Fouhy of Pew Center on Civic Journalism and former executive of ABC and CBS News. News conference is sponsored by 17 groups, mostly industry-related labor unions, plus Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America and Center for Digital Democracy.