Former FCC Chairs Say "End the Ownership Rules"

This is an interesting item from another blog written following a C-SPAN program called "The Communicators" that brought together former Federal Communications Commission Chiefs Reed Hundt (Clinton administration), Michael Powell (G. W. Bush administration) and Kevin Martin, who took over the agency after Powell during the last years of the George W. Bush Presidency in a lively discussion on the FCC and the agency's ownership rules.

The central message from the three former Chiefs:  Throw the rules out.  But it won't happen for many reasons, with Powell citing politics as the primary reason.

It is an interesting program illustrating how policy decisions impact the media economy.