Copps Urges Media Reform, Bemoans Years of 'Mindless Deregulation'
Broadcasting & Cable, May 14, 2009
By John Eggerton
At the Free Press Summit: Changing Media in Washington, D.C., progressive reformer and Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps was basking in his element as he preached the gospel of media reform. He suggested that traditional media may be going the way of the VCR and analog TV sets, but also raised the issue of regulating media's presumptive new king: the Internet.
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