MediaCon: Gillmor’s final shot

Tomorrow’s vote at the FCC is discussed in Dan Gillmor’s column. The FCC will liberate the networks to consolidate because the FCC feels pressured by the courts. (“Courts” means the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which sees a pressing First Amendment claim favoring network owners, but no First Amendment claim defending the public domain (“copyrights are categorically immune” from First Amendment scrutiny)). Read Dan’s column and wonder: here in this democracy, this universal opposition to the actions of a bureaucracy does what exactly?