The Senate Commerce Committee’s overturning of new FCC media ownership rules might not hold up in the full Senate. So what does the committee vote mean? “It is no overstatement to say that the committee’s vote was a victory, or at least a step on the road to victory, for the American people. To put it another way: If Frank Capra’s idealistic Sen. Jefferson Smith, from the film ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,’ really existed, he would be jumping for joy right now.”