While I disagree with a lot of what Pai is doing, this doesn't seem bad and actually seems to reflect reality: > On Thursday the FCC will vote on Pai’s pro

While I disagree with a lot of what Pai is doing, this doesn't seem bad and actually seems to reflect reality: > On Thursday the FCC will vote on Pai’s proposal to eliminate > the 42-year-old ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and TV > station in a major market. This already exists. Newspapers are all now websites (basically), so CNN is effectively a newspaper/website that owns a TV station (or vice versa)... No significant newspaper is limited to a major market and I'm unsure of the benefit of a 42yo rule that has a limited relevance to our current reality. Under current regulations, BuzzFeed can buy WNBC in NYC but The NYTimes cannot? Unfortunately, Pai's logic seems to make some sense. > more than 39 percent of U.S. television households But the above 39% thing is totally baffling. From the Justice Department: > The agencies generally consider markets in which the HHI is between 1,500 > and 2,500 points to be moderately concentrated, and consider markets in > which the HHI is in excess of 2,500 points to be highly concentrated. A Herfindahl-Hirschman Index including this one company (@ 40%) would be 1,600 (40%^2). That one company causes the market to be "moderately concentrated" and we're removing this limit. That's completely insane.