Critics of media consolidation went on the warpath last week after the FCC released a dozen economic studies painting a generally rosy picture of broadcast consolidation in the past six years―a strong hint that more deregulation is on the way. "These studies should not be a basis for abandoning broadcast-ownership limits," said Mark Cooper, research director for the Consumer Federation of America. Any FCC attorney relying on last week's research to defend new deregulation against court challenges would "get his brain handed to him," he said, suggesting that the FCC coordinated the conclusions to favor deregulation.
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