Much huffington and puffington over the FCC‘s decision to bury a report on media ownership. Burying reports is – of course – plain dumb. The report in question, from 2003, analyzed over 10,000 news stories from five years before. FCC economists found that “local ownership adds almost five and one-half minutes of local news” per half-hour programme.
My problems? Five years is a long time in news, and how much better was the local news than the national and international news it replaced?