From President Barack Obama’s new White House website comes this comment from the “Technology” page, as posted in the section titled “Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets”

Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership: Encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum.

Now this is the kind of change I can believe in.

Read much more on this at Brad Friedman’s site The Brad Blog

Obama also appointed Michael Copps as acting chair of the FCC, which is good news for PEG access (public, educational and government television) and all advocates of a truly democratically accountable and accessible media system. Too bad he didn’t just go ahead and name him permanent chair.