] But lawmakers from both parties and a broad range of
] public interest groups criticized the changes, saying the
] FCC regulations had given large media companies too much
] control over what people see, hear and read.

DUH! Michael Powell might rank in the top three Bush administration officials who have done the most lasting and caustic damage to the US landscape in four short years. The entire communications realm is now exclusively dominated by large lobby players and innovation and competition has ceased.