From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kevin Tarr wrote: > > > > At 07:19 AM 6/2/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >http://www.sarahstirland.com/archives/mediacon.htm > > > > > >It's a picture. > > > > But it wasn't worth a thousand words. > > Obligatory second line. > > 1) You could count the words on the page. That might help. 499 words at first count. I don't plan on re-counting. May have counted some words twice. Initials were counted as individual words. Nope, not worth a thousand words. Don't pay that much. My thought on the whole "companies owning too many stations" thing is: Who cares? First off it will expand diversity, not limit it, because stations owned by the same company are going to target different demographics so that the stations are not competing with one another. What would be the point? Take USA and Sci-fi channel, both owned by the same parent company. There is a small degree of overlap, but only where the genres overlap. USA is primaily suspense and action stuff while Sci-fi is... well Sci-Fi. As long as there are enough channels for local interest, public access, etc. (and come on now, with digital cable and satelite service going up everywhere in the USA, we are in no danger of running out of channels), then what does it matter if one company ownes a bucket-full of stations in a varitable sea of stations. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
