[Mediapolitics] Fwd: [reclaim the media ] Court notes IMC is a source of local news

[Sheri Herndon]

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Date: 6/25/04 4:25 PM
Received: 7/5/04 10:04 PM -0000
From: popeye at speakeasy.net (Mike Weisman)
To: rtm at lists.riseup.net

>From the opinion at p. 64 in Prometheus Radio v. FCC;

"The dissent also takes notice of the Independent Media Center websites such
as phillyimc.com. We agree that this is a good example of independent local
news on the Internet. But the IMC provides local links in only eight markets
in the United States. The Commission does not even mention these websites in
its analysis of the Internet, let alone argue that IMC websites in eight
local markets will offset the viewpoint diversity lost when newspapers and
broadcast stations are allowed to consolidate. And even if we believed that
to be the case, it is not our role to insert our own analysis to substitute
for that which is missing from the agency¹s rationale. State Farm, 463 U.S.
at 43 (³[W]e may not supply a reasoned basis for the agency¹s action that
the agency itself has not given.²)."

I think it is excellent that the Court includes the IMC network, recognizing
that in many communities it is an important source of local news.

MikeW
RTM


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