A recent article in the Chicago Tribune discussed recent hearings by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is considering placing tighter restrictions on it's media-ownership rules. The rules would make it more difficult for organizations to create large media empires.
Restrictions on media ownership would come at an important time. Currently media moguls like Time Warner, Disney and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation own several different outlets, including newspapers, book publishing companies, television stations and movie studios.
When only a few companies own a majority of the news and media outlets, it limits the amount of information we receive. Those companies have more control and power to decide what the public sees, as far as news and entertainment.
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