NY Times: Musicians Protesting Monopoly in Media

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Musicians Protesting Monopoly in Media

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — Musicians rocked for peace in the 1960's. They rocked for Africa in the 1980's. Now they're rocking for stricter corporate media regulation.

And all they are saying is, Give radio station ownership caps a chance.

In front of an audience of 1,100 on a recent rainy Monday night at the cavernous 930 Club here, Tom Morello, former guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, took the stage with musicians like Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Lester Chambers and Boots Riley. Here the raging was mainly against the star of media consolidation, Clear Channel Communications, which since 1996 has grown from fewer than 40 radio stations to more than 1,200 nationwide.

"What's happening is that Clear Channel is a great hulking Frankenstein monster gobbling things up," Mr. Bragg told the crowd, a mix of young and not-so-young, many of them urban professionals, briefcases and children in hand.

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Musicians Protesting Monopoly in Media

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