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Media monopolies still can't unearth the truth.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Edward Wasserman
The affair of Jessica Lynch, the U.S. Army private who was injured in Iraq and rescued in a commando raid, seems unrelated to monopoly control of the media. But the handling of her story offers good reason to cheer Senate elders for moving to reverse the ideologically besotted Federal Communications Commission decision to trash safeguards against deepening concentration of media ownership.
In the latest development of the Lynch story, CBS News, desperate to get the 19-year-old West Virginia girl for an exclusive on-camera interview, sweetened the pot dramatically.
CBS can do this. As fans of monopolistic excess know, CBS belongs to Viacom, which also owns all things Paramount, 39 TV stations, MTV, VH1, Showtime, Comedy Central, The Movie Channel, Sundance, Nickelodeon, Simon & Schuster and the huge Infinity ...
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- News wire article from: United Press International June 16, 2003 700+ words
...been won by CBS, the New York Times reported Monday. Pfc. Jessica Lynch was inundated with media gifts and requests as soon as she...divisions of its corporate parent, Viacom. They include CBS News, CBS Entertainment, MTV networks and Simon & Schuster...
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- News wire article from: United Press International June 16, 2003 700+ words
...been won by CBS, the New York Times reported Monday. Pfc. Jessica Lynch was inundated with media gifts and requests as soon as she...divisions of its corporate parent, Viacom. They include CBS News, CBS Entertainment, MTV networks and Simon & Schuster...
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