The one thing the F.C.C. does to positively influence American society is exercising their power to limit mergers in the media world. Granted, they don't exert that influence enough, but at least we know that if something truly egregious occurs (and there will be examples in the coming years...it's getting bad again), the F.C.C. can step in.
Republicans proposed a law yesterday to take that power away from the F.C.C.Really? Is there anyone in the entire country in favor of that other than the five or six owners of the giant media conglomerates?
What about the rest of the 299,999,994 of us?
Somebody should really write a book about this. (Oh wait, that's right, somebody did.)
