Senate Votes on Roll-back of Media Ownership Rules

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This is exactly the sort of thing I want to see happening over the next four years. Though I'm sure George W. Bush will whip out his (prior to 2006, very dusty) veto pen, it is refreshing to see the Senate doing the right thing.

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Senate votes to roll back media ownership rule

The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.

The unusual "resolution of disapproval," sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and 26 other senators, was approved by a voice vote. The measures sponsors include both Democratic candidates for president, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois. . .

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