Court ruling heartens media watchdogs in advance of FCC ownership rules review

Supporters of diverse local media and champions of competition among news outlets are celebrating the recent U.S. Court of Appeals verdict in Prometheus Radio Project v. the FCC. The court rejected Federal Communications Commission rules that would have opened up ownership to further corporate consolidation. In the wake of the egregious overstepping by media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s uber British tabloid News of the World, the ruling has taken on an heroic cast. The court said that in making its rules the FCC had ignored the input of millions of American citizens.

Just how deep are the Tea Party’s grass roots?

Who is the Tea Party? You know them as your neighbors, the grassroots organization that GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes and Republican Senate nominee Ken Buck have ridden to unlikely success.

Maybe it really is a movement of the people,…

News Nuggets: 5 August 2009

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HEALTH-CARE RICHES: Colorado anti- health-care reform protesters are being rallied and bused around tomorrow by “free-market” group Americans for Prosperity. On its “Patients First Bus Tour,” AFP will be hauling the group to Fort…