[opendtv] Re: Forbes: Why FCC's Move To Relax Market Share Caps For TV Stations Makes No Sense
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 08:44:27 -0400
On Aug 15, 2017, at 8:19 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
The author of this article makes a clear case for relaxing ownerships
caps, based on the FACT that broadcasters now compete with many forms of
content distribution for their share of the audience:
You are really hopeless! The tile says, the FCC's move to relax caps **MAKES
NO SENSE**. Let's think real hard about this. If the "author of this article
makes a clear case for relaxing ownerships," as you claim, then how come he
is saying that relaxing the caps makes no sense?
You have a valid point, but did not argue that point in your response.
The best answer I can give to the question above is that the author thinks the
FCC should not mess around the edges of this issue, just making a few
incremental adjustments as they have done for more than five decades.
I must assume that the author, like myself, would like to see total
deregulation of the broadcast TV industry.
If anything, the fact that there are so many other Internet-based
sources, which are not regulated by the FCC, would argue that this FCC
push is justified.
This is EXACTLY what the author is arguing.
Again, you are hopeless. Read the title. Move to relax ownership rules makes
no sense, it says. Contradiction number one. Then read this quote:\
No Bert. READ WHAT THE AUTHOR WROTE.
I have had editors change many headlines over the years, often misrepresenting
what I said in the article. It was completely clear that the author supports
the relaxation of FCC ownership rules But you argued that the article said
otherwise.
Should welcome? They DO welcome. Why is he trying to convince the
broadcasters, and why is he contradicting his own title?
because there are many broadcasters, especially the owners of the broadcast
networks, who do not want the rules relaxed in a manner that will help
potential competitors like Sinclair. The networks might support total
deregulation, so they could own ALL of their affiliates. But it is more likely
they would like things to remain the same as they slowly walk away from the
broadcast TV business, and cut out the affiliate middlemen.
It's truly astonishing how everything has to be belabored for Craig. As I
already stated, maybe the title was mistyped, but even if that's true, he
seems to be arguing something that broadcast station groups have been saying
for decades.
What is astonishing is that yesterday you argued that the author said one thing
- that the content of the article agreed with the title - and today you are
arguing just the opposite...
Regards
Craig
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