MSNBC publishes this article that is critical of the recent FCC decisions under Chairman Powell. Writer Eric Alterman, who also writes for the Nation, says of the News Corp. deal that “Powell, like Murdoch, is being more than disingenuous,” in his claims that the new triopoly (two TV stations and a newspaper) will not threaten news diversity in the NYC market. Alterman points out that while Murdoch defends the triopoly by saying there are 25 daily newspapers in NYC, he also fails to mention that 22 of them are not in English.
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