Consumers Union Vice President for Federal and International Affairs Gene Kimmelman says the public may have lost this important battle, but the war is far from over.

With the Republican majority at the Federal Communications Commission poised to gut the agency's 32-year-old rule preventing a single company from owning both the newspaper and a broadcaster in the same market tomorrow, the New York Times is out with a strong editorial this morning laying out the case against the change.

Despite pleas and threats from Congress and overwhelming opposition from the public, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says he won't hold off on a vote to gut the agency's rules preventing a company from owning a newspaper and television station in the same market set for December 18th.