FTC will study how to help newspapers from collapsing
(WSJ) FTC Chairman Jon Leibowit’s said his agency will examine whether government should change the way the industry is regulated, from making news-gathering companies exempt from antitrust laws to granting them special tax treatment to making changes to copyright laws.
The Federal Communications Commission is already reconsidering rules that prevent a company from owning newspapers and TV stations in a single market.
Mr. Leibowitz said other ideas include extending government subsidies to commercial news organizations, granting them special tax treatment or an exemption from antitrust regulations
via FTC Workshop Examines Journalism in Internet Age – WSJ.com.
