Media Minutes: September 4, 2009

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Media Minutes for September 4, 2009
Producer: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
Length: 5:04


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In response to ColorofChange.org's call for advertisers to stop airing commercials on the Glenn Beck Show after Beck's racist remarks, 57 companies have pulled their ads. And an appeals court threw out the FCC's ruling that cable companies can't control more than 30 percent of a market. But that doesn't mean that the agency gets to ignore the issue of capping cable ownership.

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