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The AFL-CIO and the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE) present arguments and evidence why maintaining rules ensuring diverse ownership over different media outlets remains essential for the protection of viewpoint and musical diversity in local markets and how media consolidation has hurt diversity and localism and has spawned anticompetitive business practices. AFL-CIO and DPE comments examine the important influence of media ownership and concentration on viewpoint diversity and localism. They argue that as media concentration has continued to grow since the Commission's earlier proceedings on media consolidation, media ownership limits need to be maintained and strengthened not weakened, to protect diversity, localism and competition. They further affirm the importance of maintaining limits on media ownership concentration for preserving musical localism and diversity, and that because substitutability between media types is very limited, it is not a valid justification for weakening media ownership rules.
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