Why Newspapers Will Lose on Media Cross-Ownership -- Again
Editor & Publisher, November 2, 2006
By Mark Fitzgerald
Once more, the ban on common ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market faces long overdue elimination by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
But don't underestimate the newspaper industry's proven ability to lose on the cross-ownership issue despite an unassailably logical case.
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