Miss. AG bemoans corporate media

Forbes, 4/22/8

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he’s unhappy about corporate ownership of news organizations in the United States.

He said at a press luncheon Monday he was not threatening litigation. He simply wanted to express his frustrations.

“Something that worries me more so than the war and Iraq and money in politics is freedom of the press,” Hood said. “Is our press free anymore? The corporate ownership of the press nationally is a concern to me.”

Hood spoke in Jackson at a luncheon sponsored by the Capitol press corps and Mississippi State University’s John C. Stennis Institute of Government. The audience of about 20 did not include any high-level editors or news executives.