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Media Regulation at the Turn of the Millennium M Arch 18-19, 2005 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Volume 39 2006 Not from Concentrate? Media Regulation at the Turn of the Millennium M arch 18-19, 2005 Journal of Law Reform Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr Part of the Administrative Law Commons, Communications Law Commons, and the Internet Law Commons Recommended Citation Journal of Law Reform, Not from Concentrate? Media Regulation at the Turn of the Millennium M arch 18-19, 2005, 39 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 229 (2006). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol39/iss2/4 This Symposium Transcript is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TRANSCRIPT NOT FROM CONCENTRATE? MEDIA REGULATION AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL MARCH 18-19, 2005 ROOM 25o, HUTCHINS HALL WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS LIZ WEI: Hi, my name is Liz Wei and I am one of the coordina- tors of the event today. Ryan Calo, is the other coordinator, and on behalf of Volume 38 of the Journal of Law Reform we want to wel- come you to our Symposium on Media Regulation, NOT FROM CONCENTRATE? MEDIA REGULATION AT THE TURN OF THE MILLEN- NIUM. We are happy to see such a full audience today for the opening keynote address, as we believe the issues of media owner- ship are vitally important, and they certainly affect every person in the room tonight. We are lucky to have with us a truly impressive group of speakers in this field, experts in law and practice, and we thank them for making their way all the way to Michigan, where it's so cold out still, so that they could share their research and their expertise in this area and the discussions. Tomorrow they will be speaking over the course of three panels, and we hope that everyone here will join us again tomorrow. The first panel is at 10:00 in the morning, and it's here in this room. We are truly thrilled to have Eric Alter- man with us tonight, and I'm sure that you're all looking forward to hearing him speak as much as I am. In bringing him here we were generously supported by the University of Michigan Law School and the Michigan Department for Communication Studies, and in particular, Professor Susan Douglas and Professor Russell Neuman lent us much support and advice. And with that I would like to introduce Professor Susan Douglas, the Chair of the Michi- gan Communication Studies Department, and she will introduce Eric Alterman. SUSAN DOUGLAS: I want to thank Ryan Calo and Liz Wei for working so hard on this, and putting together what promises to be a really terrific conference. They've worked very hard. I also want to thank the Howard R. Marsh Endowment for the Study of University of MichiganJournal of Law Reform [VOL. 39:2 Journalistic Performance, which makes this lecture and some of this conference possible. When we were meeting back in the fall to talk about who would be the perfect keynote for a conference on media ownership and media concentration there was really one person we really wanted to get, and that was Eric Alterman, who many of you know as the dazzling media columnist for The Nation. Eric is one of the leading experts on media concentration, and particularly media bias, and on their consequences for democracy. Eric Alterman has been termed and I quote, "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today." He is the author of the national best seller, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, which I strongly, strongly recommend. It's a great book. He also writes the "Altercation," his weblogger for MSNBC.com. He's also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. His book, Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy,another terrific book, won the 1992 George Orwell Award, and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. Eric Alterman is also the author of The Book on Bush, How George W. (Mis)leads America, which he did with Mark Green, and When Presidents Lie: A History of Deception and its Consequences. Eric Alterman has also, in addition to all of this, been a contributing editor to or columnist for Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World PolicyJournal and the Sunday Express in London. He is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at the new school and an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University. He has a B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford. Please join me in welcoming Eric Alterman. ERIC ALTERMAN: Thank you, Susan. I'm genuinely honored to be here, and I'm not sure I would have been the first person that I thought of for this, but I'm happy that I see that you're closing with my friend, Jonathan Adelstein tomorrow. And Jon-this is ei- ther pathetic or really cool, butJon and his wife came to New York last Saturday night so we could go see the Allman Brothers to- gether, who formed I think the year Jonathan was born, which makes him more successful in life than I am. Like I said, you can divide people by whether or not they think that's pathetic or cool. I can go either way, and I was one of them. Just a tiny corrective mat- ter-I'm no longer at Columbia. I'm now professor of journalism at the City University of New York, and I'm very proud of that. So I throw that in. It's the first honest living I've ever actually had to make, to be somewhere at a certain time. It's traumatic. WINTER 2006] Media Regulation at the Turn of the Millennium Okay. One thing I really like about this gig is nobody gave me any clue as to what I should say, and it's a good place for me to be in the beginning of the conference, because I don't have to pre- tend to know things I don't know about. You know? I can talk about what I do know about, and one hopes that that will stimulate further debate for the rest of the conference just in a sort of the odds are kind of manner that one of these things will be worth talking about later. Because the thing about issues in media owner- ship and media concentration is that you can kind of explain the whole world through them, but if you do you're going to miss im- portant parts of it. In other words, the issues are so important and so central to so much that it's very easy for those of us who've spent a lot of time talking about it, and writing about it, and thinking about it, to think that if we solve these issues somehow we would solve our problems with the media and with our democracy, and that's not the case. I just wanted to sort of keep this in the back of our minds. I wrote a column. I'm sure most people in this room remember. A little over a year ago when Ted Koppel was reading all of the names of the dead in Iraq, and there was only about 400 back then. Now it's up to about 1,100-no, 1,500. It's up to 1,500. So, Sinclair Broadcasting wouldn't run the show, and I wrote a column in The Nation saying, "Here is one more argument about why we need a diverse media ownership," because twenty-five percent of the coun- try that has Sinclair Broadcasting is going to be denied this for clearly political reasons. And somebody wrote a letter to The Nation saying, "Well, that's kind of stupid, because it's Disney who Sinclair is censoring." And Disney is supposed to be the bad guy. They're Disney. They're one of the big six, and Sinclair is a relatively small player in this field. So if you had a lot of Sinclairs and no Disney in this case, you wouldn't be getting the news you wanted then. It's not all about media concentration from the standpoint of the mar- ketplace of ideas in any case. Now, that contradicts the thrust of most of what I'm going to say, but it's just worth keeping in mind that if you're a liberal or if you're just someone who likes to see as many ideas at play as possible in public discourse, media concen- tration is an enormously important lens through which to view the problem, but it's not the only one. That said, it is at a kind of crisis. I don't know how many of you are familiar with Ben Bagdikian's book called The Media Monopoly, that was the book that sort of introduced this issue as a political issue beyond the bounds of the expert field to the rest of the University of MichiganJournal of Law Reform [VOL.
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