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Posted By GHOSTWHOWALKS 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
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On Tuesday December 18, the Federal Communications Commission finally did it: By a vote of three-to-two, with F-C-C Chairman Kevin Martin and his Republican colleagues in the majority, said yes to newspapers that want to buy radio and television stations in the cities where they're published.

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    GHOSTWHOWALKS9 months, 3 weeks ago

    But the fix was in: As we reported last week, Republican F-C-C Chairman Kevin Martin had made up his mind a year and a half ago - before there'd been a single public hearing or formal study.

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      ameliog9 months, 3 weeks ago

      I saw something about this on Bill Moyers journal the other week. The public comments against this was overwhelming.

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