February 18, 2004
Dodging A Bullet
Remember Miguel Estrada? Of course you do. If you're reading this, there's even a good chance that you called or wrote a legislator asking them to block his nomination for the federal bench. In a manifest example of collective good taste, Estrada is back to menace the public interest:
PHILADELPHIA - Big media companies eager to loosen federal limits on industry ownership faced off against consumer advocates calling for tighter controls in an unusually long hearing yesterday before a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
...Arguing on behalf of Clear Channel Communications Inc., which owns or programs more than 1,300 radio stations, Miguel Estrada told the judges that the FCC was correct to rule that diversity - assuring a variety of programming - should be regarded as secondary to competition when determining how many radio stations any company is permitted to own in a market. ...
Glad he's arguing before that panel instead of sitting on it.
Posted by natasha at February 18, 2004 03:26 AM | TrackBack