The business end
of the media business is at stake in a new auction being planned by the FCC. Here’s an update from today’s Boston Globe. Here is a link to the FCC website (which should have been supplied by the Globe...
View ArticleAn Auction or a Giveaway?
By Chris Daly Let me see if I have this right: The Federal Communications Commission is planning to hold an auction to sell off chunks of bandwidth in the electromagnetic spectrum. Specifically, the...
View ArticleMedia & politics: France v U.S.
By Chris Daly In France, the regulations that guarantee equal time to all major political candidates seem to be taken quite literally. Today’s Times has a story that tells of the lengths that French...
View ArticleShameless self-promotion (Journalism history division)
By Christopher B. Daly Finally, it’s here: the electronic version of my book about the history of U.S. journalism, Covering America. Just in time for the anniversary of the rollout of the hardback,...
View ArticleShould Murdoch be able to buy the L.A. Times?
By Christopher B. Daly Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch is not finished trying to acquire more news outlets, despite his unsavory legal problems. His latest target is the L.A. Times, the paper...
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