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November 27, 2007   Scott Bergmann 202-418-2300
STATEMENT BY COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN IN RESPONSE TO THE DELETION 
OF THE MINORITY OWNERSHIP ITEM FROM TODAY’S AGENDA
I’m pleased that the Commission has backed off its fig leaf attempt to address minority and 
female ownership.   It was an obvious effort to provide cover for more media consolidation, 
which would only have take media outlets further out of the reach of women and minorities.  It 
was designed to check the box and move on.
It’s high time we create an independent, bipartisan panel that will look at these issues in a 
comprehensive and substantive fashion.  Media sharecropping is no substitute for media 
ownership.  Given the crisis we face in ownership, we need real actions, not just token gestures.  
We need to heed the many calls from Congress and diverse voices across America who are 
demanding we act to improve women and minority ownership before, not after, we vote on 
media ownership rules.