The ‘geek got a shout-out in the current issue of In These Times magazine, in an article by Guerrilla News Network’s Stephen Marshall, entitled “Prime Time Payola”:
In January, Sen. John McCainÂ’s Commerce Committee held two hearings that targeted, among other things, the issue of media concentration. At the first hearing, Michael Powell and his four commissioners were subjected to intense questioning about their strategy to protect the public interest from “skyÂ’s the limit” deregulation. In a response that clearly surprised the committee, Powell, traditionally an unabashed proponent of the free market and loosened restrictions to ownership, said he was “concerned about the concentration, particularly in radio.” Mediageek.comÂ’s Paul Riismandel explained: “Indeed, [Powell] didnÂ’t want much publicity or input … But now the cat is out of the bag and yowling like crazy.”
Unfortunately they’ve listed the site as mediageek.com rather than mediageek.org. I don’t own the mediageek.com domain – somebody else has it, although there’s no site there (squatter?). Ah, but mediageek.net will work, too.
Yeah, I know, quit whining. It’s probably a copy editing error anyway, especially because a different version of the article on the Guerrilla News website has the domain correctly linked.
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