Nancy Zirkin, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights:
"The findings... should be a national embarrassment. And the fact that some on the recent FCC have been more interested in giving more power to those who already have too much, rather than addressing decades of discrimination and ensuring that the little guy will get a chance, should be a national scandal."
Janet Murguia, National Council of La Raza:
"Latinos continue to be severely underrepresented in the mainstream media in terms of employment, content, and ownership. This report confirms what we strongly believe — that increased media concentration has significantly exacerbated this situation and that increasing diversity in media ownership could help stem it."
Gary Flowers, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition:
"This attempt by the FCC to change ownership rules once again will result in too few owning too much, at the expense of too many."
Cheryl A. Leanza, United Church of Christ:
"Today Americans are realizing that it is important that each of us own a stake in America. Yet some of us are still being left out of the most influential industry America has produced to date. This study demonstrates something we already intuitively realize that the people running the media industry do not represent most Americans and are not based in our communities."
David Honig, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council:
"In addition to being morally wrong, the lack of minority ownership is anti-competitive and inefficient. It deprives America's television viewers of the entrepreneurial, managerial and creative skills of a third of the nation's people."
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