Do Local Owners Deliver More Localism? Some Evidence from Local Broadcast News
U.S. Federal Election Commission.
Available online.
Apparently, the FCC suppressed a research report which indicated that local ownership of media outlets results in more coverage of local news than when such outlets are not locally owned. The above link takes you to a Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting page describing the controversy, with a link to the recently-discovered FCC document (now on the FCC Web site) here.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.