• Miami Herald, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:45 AM

The FCC's thinking about media ownership and power is being exposed as an "incoherent muddle," says Knight journalism ethics professor Edward Wasserman. Policymakers' decision to allow the companies to own both newspapers and TV stations in big cities applies to two obsolescent technologies--print and over-the-air TV, he says.

More "troubling" is Cablevision's purchase of Newsday, the country's eleventh-biggest paper--a deal the FCC can't touch. Wasserman says the FCC is also too late in encouraging localism in local TV. Soon national networks will be using online and cable and "localism will be all that's left for local TV stations."

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