FCC chairboy kevin martin's new proposal confuses us

-By MARTY What FCC Chairboy Kevin Martin is proposing will probably open the consolidation flood gates. The FCC chief has submitted his proposal to relax its ban on the cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the 20 biggest U.S. cities. The deal is designed to help newspaper publishers save their papers by allowing them to perhaps buy a TV or a radio station which some how some way would help. We don't even think Kev knows what he is proposing. "A company that owns a newspaper in one of the 20 largest cities in the country should be permitted to purchase a broadcast TV or radio station in the same market," Martin wrote his newspaper column. "But a newspaper should be prohibited from buying one of the top four TV stations in its community." FCC chief proposes to relax media ownership ban [Reuters]