{"id":261,"date":"2003-06-04T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/01\/20\/loosening-media-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T01:56:28","slug":"loosening-media-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/04\/loosening-media-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosening media restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">C-SPAN<\/a> love                 continues, as the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by John McCain,                 grills Michael Powell and other FCC commissioners regarding their                 unpopular ruling loosening media restrictions, and <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/ap\/20030604\/ap_on_go_ot\/media_ownership_64\" target=\"_blank\">considers                 overturning the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why not go after <strong>both<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/2963920.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Martha                   Stewart<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/1816593.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth                   Lay<\/a>? What about the guy from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/2948380.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Tyco<\/a>?                   And what&#8217;s the status of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/2289116.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie                   Ebbers<\/a> litigation?<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/04\/loosening-media-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C-SPAN love continues, as the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by John McCain, grills Michael Powell and other FCC commissioners regarding their unpopular ruling loosening media restrictions, and considers overturning the vote. Why not go after both Martha Stewart and Kenneth Lay? What about the guy from Tyco? And what&#8217;s the status of the Bernie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/04\/loosening-media-restrictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loosening media restrictions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/04\/loosening-media-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}