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To: PartyTime who wrote (8)	2/11/2002 11:28:00 AM
From: TimF	of 10

I can see some reason to be a little bit worried, but I think the author of this article overstates his case. Even if you just look at ownership of major media outlets there are still multiple competing sources of news. And there are new sources like the internet, and many older smaller outlets that still exist. The number of different source sfor news and political comentary is larger then it used to be not smaller. The "major sources" are losing market share. Also I don't share Mr. Miller's disdain for large corperations as "ultimately hostile to the welfare of the people". What is unique to Michael Powell, however, is the showy superciliousness with which he treats his civic obligation to address the needs of people other than the very rich. That spirit has shone forth many times--as when the chairman genially compared the "digital divide" between the information haves and have-nots to a "Mercedes divide" between the lucky few who can afford great cars and those (like him) who can't I agree with Powell here, although maybe he could be more diplomatic about it. Rich people have greater access to goods and services then poor people. That's life. Besides many public libraries have internet access so people who don't have access at home or work, can go to the library. while no one in authority makes mention of "the public interest"--except to laugh it off. "I have no idea," Powell cheerily replied at his first press conference as chairman, when asked for his own definition of that crucial concept. "It's an empty vessel in which people pour in whatever their preconceived views or biases are." Powell is mostly right here as well. Sure I have ideas of what is in the public interest but many of them are probably different from your ideas or from Mark Miller's. Tim

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