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Democrats press FCC over Dow Jones sale« Thread Started on A

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Democrats press FCC over Dow Jones sale« Thread Started on Aug 12, 2007, 12:27am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Democrats press FCC over Dow Jones saleMurdoch would get bigger N.Y. presenceBy Jim Puzzanghera and Joseph Menn August 8, 2007 read at source> http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ba ... WASHINGTON - Federal rules try to limit media power by prohibiting a company from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same city.Billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. faces no such hurdle in its pending deal to acquire the country's second-largest paper, Dow Jones & Co.'s The Wall Street Journal, even though it owns a broadcast TV network and a national cable news channel that blankets the U.S.