FCC plan would relax ownership limits

A laissez-faire libertarian approach sometimes is the best way to move forward. But certainly not in the mediasphere, where concentrated ownership has choked off a multiplicity of voices out there that are already no longer heard.

Or, to put it a bit plainer, what a jackass idea.

NY Times: The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city.