Steve Macek, associate professor of speech communication and coordinator of urban and suburban studies, was quoted
July 7 and
July 13 as an expert in online publications about the pending Comcast/NBC Universal merger, which, he says, would result in reduced local news coverage and job cuts for news employees at those stations. On the same subject, he testified at a Federal Communications Commission hearing July 13 in Chicago and co-authored an op-ed critiquing the proposed Comcast-NBC/Universal merger that was syndicated by American Forum.
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