News Media Alliance Wants Trump to Loosen Media Ownership Rules, Make Changes to CO
The FCC should revisit and roll back media ownership rules under President-elect Donald Trump, the News Media Alliance said in a white paper sent to his transition team Wednesday. “While news organizations are innovating and adapting to a vastly different…
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media landscape, antiquated government regulations and imbalanced policies are unnecessarily hindering investment and growth at news media companies,” said CEO David Chavern in a news release. The association also seeks changes to copyright law to tighten up fair use rules and make the Copyright Office autonomous in the federal government and separate from the Library of Congress. The group said the Trump administration should preserve news-media freedoms and not base the handing out of press credentials on a media organization's news content but on “neutral” procedures. “There is value in providing a level of detail into the president's thinking,” the paper said.