New rules on media ownership approved by the Federal Communications Commission will allow more media mergers and acquisitions. Norris Dickard, director of public policy at the Benton Foundation, suggests children may be big losers in a deregulated media marketplace.

This spring, the Federal Communications Commission will decide whether to change regulations that limit corporations' ownership of mass media outlets. Eleven-year-old Natasha Kirtchuk thinks relaxing the rules would be bad for kids. But at a recent forum, Kirtchuk was told she was too young to speak. So here is what she would have said, from Children's Pressline in New York City.