Wouldn’t The World Be A Much Simpler Place If We Just Got All Our News From Rupert Murdoch?

President Obama’s appointed FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, a guy who made a tidy profit from media companies, has an idea. He wants to allow media companies to consolidate and merge EVEN MORE, so we can get even less-diverse news opinions from a single source, rather than different ones. We should probably do something about that.

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