With Michael Powell in charge at the FCC, more media megamergers are on the way. (see story link for details)

Should the corporate owners of newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post be allowed to own television stations in the same city? Until recently, such cross-ownership has been banned by the Federal Communications Commission as inimical to the vitality of a free press. Now, the FCC, headed by a Bush appointee, is about to reverse a 1974 rule aimed at preventing a few companies from dominating the media. The people who run the huge communications conglomerates were very aware that the issue of media concentration was hanging in the balance in the last presidential election.