Written by: Victor Tan Chen, Inthefray.com Editor

Center for Digital Democracy
http://www.democraticmedia.org
Washington
Organization devoted to preserving the "openness and diversity of the Internet"

Common Cause
http://www.commoncause.org
Washington
Lobbying organization that opposed the FCC rule changes

Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov
Washington
Federal regulator overseeing the U.S. telecommunications industry

The Progress & Freedom Foundation
http://www.pff.org
Washington
Think tank that supported the FCC rule changes

"FCC Eases Media Ownership Rules"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5555-2003Jun2.html
By Frank Ahrens | The Washington Post | June 3, 2003

"FCC Rule Fight Continues in Congress"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10135-2003Jun3.html
By Frank Ahrens | The Washington Post | June 4, 2003

"FCC Votes to Ease Media Ownership Rules"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3076-2003Jun2.html
By Frank Ahrens | The Washington Post | June 2, 2003

"FCC Votes to Relax Rules Limiting Media Ownership"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/business/02WIRE-FCC.html
Associated Press | June 2, 2003

"Media Giants Hint That They Might Be Expanding"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5450-2003Jun2
By Alec Klein and David A. Vise | The Washington Post | June 3, 2003

"Senators Attack FCC Rules"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14861-2003Jun4.html
By Frank Ahrens | The Washington Post | June 5, 2003

"Cozy With the F.C.C."
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0605-05.htm
By Bob Herbert | The New York Times | June 6, 2003

"A Dark Storm Cloud is Looming Over the Future of the American Media"
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0602-13.htm
By Jonathan S. Adelstein | CommonDreams.org | June 2, 2003
Statement by Democratic FCC Commissioner who voted against the agency's June 2 decision

"FCC's Powell must be held to his word"
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/5989915.htm
By Dan Gillmor | San Jose Mercury News | June 1, 2003

"I Dissent Because Today the FCC Empowers America's New Media Elite with Unacceptable Levels of Influence"
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0602-14.htm
By Michael J. Copps | CommonDreams.org | June 2, 2003
Statement by Democratic FCC Commissioner who voted against the agency's June 2 decision

"Michael Powell and the FCC: Giving Away the Marketplace of Ideas"
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0602-03.htm
By Tom Shales | The Washington Post | June 2, 2003

"Now That The FCC Has Acted, What Is To Be Done?"
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0604-02.htm
By Danny Schechter | CommonDreams.org | June 4, 2003

"Press Statement of Chairman Michael Powell"
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2003/db0602/DOC-235047A3.pdf
By Michael Powell | Federal Communications Commission | June 2, 2003
Statement by the FCC's Republican chairperson, who supported the agency's June 2 decision