Don’t Let the FCC Crush Local News
The FCC
Stop Trump and Pai from Destroying Local Reporting
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Trump appointee, is proposing to eliminate longstanding rules governing media ownership, rules that are intended to protect local news coverage and guarantee a diversity of voices. If the rules are abolished, residents would face a drastic loss of local news coverage – and jobs – as media companies consolidate.
Eliminating the rules would allow one company to own the major newspaper, TV outlets and radio stations in a single market. The plan is tailor-made for big media companies like the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, which plans to buy Tribune Media.
Tell the Federal Communications Commission to vote NO on Pai’s dangerous proposal.
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To:
The FCC
From:
[Your Name]
I oppose proposals to gut the FCC’s longstanding media-ownership rules. Our communities need exposure to diverse views and we need strong newsrooms. The proposed changes would give a few huge companies far too much power over the public airwaves and local news.
They also would destroy jobs.
I’m appalled that the FCC would consider voting on these dangerous measures without public input.
So here’s mine: Don’t do it.