"… at Wasserstein Perella, Salomon Brothers, and Lehman Brothers. The veteran media investment banker is now with Peter J. Solomon Company. Seegal specializes …"

"… estment banker is now with Peter J. Solomon Company. Seegal specializes in media, telecom and Internet companies. In addition to the Center, he is also a t …"

"… enter and the James Beard Foundation.“Fred is an extremely knowledgeable media insider,” Buzenberg said. “He accurately understands today’s competi …"

"… der,” Buzenberg said. “He accurately understands today’s competitive media landscape and where there are significant opportunities for the Center for …"

"… 2009 health reform legislation, but Davidson monitored the legislation for media companies and manufacturers such as cable giant Viacom Inc., CBS Corp., dr …"

"… ��like a pancake,” recalls former FCC chairman Reed Hundt, Kennard’s immediate predecessor. But the threat of a shrunken budget and a congressional bac …"

"… the bottom line of a very important industry and Washington player — the media industry. It would cost broadcasters millions of dollars in lost advertisi …"

"… direct affront to their financial self-interest to become law.Indeed, the media’s success in handling the threat of free air time for candidates is but …"

"… at of free air time for candidates is but one of a stack of proposals that media companies have flattened like pancakes in Congress and the White House in …"

"… y is the same Kenneth Starr who was hailed in 1987 by many journalists and media lawyers as a savior of investigative reporting.While tens of thousands of …"

"… ess interests, determined to rein in what they perceived as post-Watergate media excesses, declared war on journalists.As a federal appeals court judge, St …"

"… al appeals court judge, Starr wrote two influential decisions favoring the media. One involved a libel case against The Washington Post filed by Mobil Oil …"

"… otection that the press should have from libel and related claims,” says media lawyer Lee Levine.A decade later, however, a different, disturbing picture …"

"… so managed to make money from the campaign. In 1996, Bay Buchanan set up a media buying company called WTS, named after her sons, William, Tommy and Stuart …"

"… ed after her sons, William, Tommy and Stuart. The Buchanan campaign bought media time from WTS, and Bay reaped an 8% commission on all WTS sales, estimated …"

"… ported that Castillo International, Newman’s New Alliance Party-operated media company, had booked speaking engagements for Sharpton, and that Newman mad …"

"… ositive articles or not to write damning ones paid discreetly through intermediaries, of course, but paid nonetheless by some of you who are in this room t …"

"… ral and the presidency in particular. Despite what Malacañang thinks, the media have actually been circumspect and have demonstrated discretion in their r …"

"… The government, in general, and the presidency, in particular, has a vast media (I will not say propaganda) machine at its disposal to counter or neutrali …"

"… en you think of it, an uneven battle, the entire arsenal of the government media war machine versus one stubborn – and its critics say also irresponsible …"

"… ility.” He said the real beneficiaries of this “boondoggle” were the media consulting firms that made millions of dollars creating and placing the ad …"

"… ssion of inside information,” he said. “But it’s harder to do with a media firm” than with pollsters and some other consultants. And GOP media stra …"

"… th a media firm” than with pollsters and some other consultants. And GOP media strategist Mike Murphy, a former McCain adviser, told the Center for Publi …"

"… Ashcroft's 2000 losing reelection bid as a Missouri senator, according to media reports. The firm also earned more than $1.3 million from a "section 527" …"

"… Pro-Choice America.media Strategies & Research Web site: www.mediastrategies.comPeople: Jon Hutchens, president; Kyle Osterhout, vice pr …"

"… dent; Kyle Osterhout, vice presidentPlaces: An established Democratic media firm, MSR has offices in Denver, Colo., and Fairfax, Va. MSR helped elect …"

"… helped elect Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius with television ads and was the media buyer for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2002 …"

"… ommission decides on June 2 whether to dramatically loosen restrictions on media ownership, it will be relying largely on analyses based on proprietary dat …"

"… hen public interest groups asked for access to data underlying a series of media ownership reports last fall, the FCC relented only after issuing a quasi-j …"

"… lace.When the Center for Public Integrity was constructing its database of media companies, staff researchers were repeatedly referred by FCC staff to priv …"

"… ght over 12 studies the FCC commissioned to examine the issue of broadcast media ownership.In November 2001, FCC Chairman Michael Powell created the media …"

"… r Channel and Comcast already dominate many of the nation's media markets, even as the Federal Communications Commission moves to …"

"… as the Federal Communications Commission moves to further relax media ownership rules at a meeting scheduled for June 2. To illustrate this tren …"

"… cheduled for June 2. To illustrate this trend, the Center analyzed current media ownership in the hometowns of the five FCC commissioners—though any Amer …"

"… etowns of the five commissioners as examples of how local ownership of the media in the nation has dwindled since 1996 when the FCC most recently loosened …"