ABSTRACT
Social scientists in the media and communications fields should view the recent Appeals Court (Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC, 2004) ruling that overturned the Federal Communications Commission's (2003) proposed media ownership rules as a huge victory and a golden opportunity. Following up on the ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals in Sinclair Broadcasting Inc. v. FCC (2002), which demanded that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) close an empirical gap in its analysis of media markets, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals embraced social science analysis wholeheartedly.
