Supreme Court Hears FCC Case For Looser Media Ownership Regs; “Amazon Owns The Washington Post. No One Thinks That’s The End Of Democracy” – Attorney
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deadline.comThe Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into a two-decade long debate over the extent to which the FCC can relax media ownership rules.At stake are recent FCC moves toward deregulation, allowing the common ownership of a newspaper and broadcast stations in the same market, as well as giving more leeway for media companies to own more than one TV and radio outlet in the same city.The dispute stretches back two decades, a few years after the FCC began a new, congressionally mandated requirement to regularly review its media ownership rules determine whether they were still necessary in the public interest.The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has repeatedly rejected the FCC’s efforts to modify the rules, and most recently a 2017 effort to overhaul
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