FCC hush on Hawaii News Now concerns media council

Star-Advertiser’s Erika Engle reports that Media Council Hawaii is growing impatient with the FCC, which has not made a definitive ruling on the Hawaii News Now TV conglomerate.

“If allowed to continue, the shared-services agreement here and others across the country will render FCC regulation and rules involving the public interest meaningless,” UH journalism professor Gerald Kato told the Star-Advertiser. “Our community, indeed, our nation, deserves better.”

In the last year, Hawaii has seen the three TV news stations merge into one, and one of Honolulu’s two print dailies devour the other—leaving many Hawaii journalists without work or moving from the state altogether.