Posted through savetheinternet.com and sent to the FCC:
Independent Media in Jeopardy
I am a former editor of an independent newspaper called Vigilance. It is now gone like many other papers of it's kind. Either small, locally-owned publishers are merged or driven out of business by the circulation & market leveraging of the giants.
70% of circulation is made up of a small group of corporations with multiple subsidiaries and 50% of total daily circulation is controlled by a mere 10 companies*. What's wrong with a centralized media? It creates a hegemony of information and alienation of a large part of the US population.
We need to keep the Internet available to the public and not allow the corporations that already own much of or information resources to co-opt this currently fluid communication channel. Please support net neutrality to sustain a fundamentally necessary aspect of our democratic society.
*Source: http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/
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