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Thursday, September 25, 2003
FCC and Michael PowellMarc at Misanthropicity spanks Michael Powell for his dull-minded response to all the criticism. "There was a concerted grass-roots effort to attack the commission from the outside in," Powell actually said. Marc answers, "Perhaps the headline should have read, 'Media giants cruelly attacked by American people.'" The colorful variety of normally bickering groups that united to criticize Powell was a grass-roots effort in the best sense, and at Radio Free Mike we think outside-in attacks on a lousy government commission are a lot better than "inside-out" attacks by the commission on the public.
Powell defended himself by saying that large media networks need to dominate more local markets, so they can go on paying multimillion-dollar salaries to the likes of Jennifer Aniston. You pay, after all, for quality.
Georgists would say that's a perfect example of how big monopolies redistribute wealth, leading to gross salaries for TV actors and big-name athletes.
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