5 things you should know about the FCC's big media giveaway

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5. We have no assurances that "digital" will be able to support itself, though.

It will be as dependent on ad revenue as our dying newspapers. With Ad Block it's hard for internet media to get enough support through that revenue. So the big players will come in and pay for the online sites and spew whatever propaganda they want to.

Already we see the death of progressive blogs or the folding within the few sites that can absorb them. Many of the writers still have to work for free.

Murdoch and a few others will eventually own all the Internet "News" by the fact that their news is online. If they can't make money then what happens to reporting?