Olympia Snowe and conservative Ted Stevens," he formulated perhaps
most simply just what was at stake: the concentration of power. And as
he asked,
+<indexterm><primary>Safire, William</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<blockquote>
<para>
encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and
the greatest expression of democracy.<footnote><para> William Safire,
"The Great Media Gulp," New York Times, 22 May 2003.
+<indexterm><primary>Safire, William</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
in the United States: Walt Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM,
Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, and
Warner Brothers.
+<indexterm><primary>Disney, Inc.</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Sony Pictures Entertainment</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>MGM</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Paramount Pictures</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Twentieth Century Fox</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Universal Pictures</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Warner Brothers</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
<!-- PAGE BREAK 128 -->
for Peace organized to oppose this change in FCC policy. An
astonishing 700,000 letters were sent to the FCC, demanding more
hearings and a different result.
+<indexterm><primary>Turner, Ted</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Safire, William</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
This activism did not stop the FCC, but soon after, a broad coalition