Storm over media cross-ownership

The US media regulator wants to relax limits on ownership of radio, TV and newspaper outlets, but the Federal Communications Commission was greeted yesterday by a gale of opposition. Civil rights organisations, public-interest groups and small broadcasters argued at an FCC hearing that it would be wrong to repeal a cross-ownership ban that prevents a company from owning a daily newspaper and a broadcast TV station in the same market. (Via Washington Post)