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Support Women’s Rights in Central America
Have you watched Liz Miller's Novela, Novela? Here's another way you can take action for women's rights: Support El Fondo Centroamericano de…Rooftop Films Screens Media That Matters
Rooftop Films, an innovative outdoor screening series based in Brooklyn, will be showing films from the third and fourth annual Media That…Books Not Bars Follow Up
Have you watched WITNESS's Books Not bars? A follow-up video is being produced and WITNESS is looking for editors. From WITNESS After…Fight Child Obesity - Keep Advertisers Off Our Kids
Have you checked out the Just Media Project and watched Kristina Schoentag's Laugh at the Fat Kid? Looking for more ways to…Make Media Ownership an Issue in ‘04
Have you checked out The Just Media Project? Take part in this new action from Media for Democracy 2004. In 2003, public opposition to media consolidation inspired three million Americans to write letters to Washington protesting a rule that would have allowed big media companies to control more local outlets across the nation. But this issue, which last year galvanized voters across the political divide, is nowhere to be found in the political discourse of 2004. The silence in 2004 speaks volumes about big media's hold on the electoral process. Over the last four years, Washington lobbyists have pocketed $160 million in big media money to support dismantling rules against conglomerates owning more outlets in more markets. In the last eight years, big media has tipped more than $30 million into the war chests of federal candidates, with the larger share (62 percent) ending up in the hands of regulation-hostile Republicans. (see the survey). The net result, in 2004, has been candidates' apparent unwillingness to take a clear position against the media corporations that control so much of what we see, read and hear. It's time we put the media ownership issue back on the political map. We expect that the Democratic and Republican candidates make clearly known their positions on this important, election-year issue. Send a letter to both campaigns asking them to make media reform a priority in 2004.Media Democracy Meeting
CABLE A LA CARTE: THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR MEDIA DIVERSITY ON CABLE TV? WHEN: June 23d, 2004 11:30 -1:30 PM -- Please note the date change! WHERE: Spiegel & McDiarmid, 1333 New Hampshire Avenue, NW (Dupont Circle), Terrace Level Conference Room 1-C. WHAT: A roundtable discussion of the impact of cable a la carte on media diversity and free expression. Lunch will be included. WHO: Johnathan Rodgers - President & CEO, TV One Jeff Valdez - Chairman, Sí TV Lisa Hall - Chief Operating Officer, Oxygen Media, Inc. Robert Corn-Revere - Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Bunnie Riedel - Executive Director, Alliance for Community Media Recently, Congress has begun to examine proposals to require cable companies to sell channels on an individual “a la carte” basis to consumers. Last month, leaders of the House and Senate Commerce Committees asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to examine cable a la carte and to report back on its findings by the end of the year. Now, the FCC is now seeking public comment on the issue. Supporters of a la carte - led by Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council - claim that it will protect families from indecent content. Others such as Consumers Union argue that allowing consumers to buy individual channels will lower cable bills. But what is really at stake in this debate? A growing number of women and minority programmers view cable a la carte as an extraordinary threat to media diversity; a plan to lock out multicultural channels altogether and make it much more difficult to launch new channels. As the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council noted in a letter to Congress, “Our nation’s success as a pluralistic society depends profoundly on diversity in the media... By locking in the current channel lineup and locking out new multicultural channels a la care would unintentionally deprive the next generation of viewers of a broad spectrum of programming and opinions.” That view is echoed by groups such as the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium that wrote, “It [“a la carte”] would adversely affect the ability of our community to freely express themselves through valuable cultural programs that draw on our collective heritage…” Free speech advocates also see a potential of censorship in the proposal, a back door way to impose broadcast indecency standards on cable and a potent weapon to keep controversial programming off cable altogether. And advocates for community media fear that a la carte will write an end to public, educational and governmental (PEG) channels, a critical source of independent media and public affairs. For example, cable a la carte could threaten C-Span’s existence. With comments due at the FCC in July, it is critical that organizations concerned with media diversity, independent media, free expression, and localism learn more about the risks posed by cable a la carte. Please RSVP to Jessica Korf at jkorf@lharris.com or 202-478-6302.Latest From Free Range Graphics!
Have you checked out Free Range Graphics' The Meatrix? These progressive designers have just released a new flash animation about protecting endangered…Sign the Low-Power FM Radio Petition!
Have you checked out the Just Media Project? Looking for more ways to take action for media democracy? Take part in this campaign from Free Press: Tell your Senators and Representatives to support Low- Power FM Radio! Big Broadcasters have blocked local community voices for long enough — it’s time to trash their anti-competitive agenda and reclaim radio! The McCain-Leahy Bill ends any further delay in low-power FM radio implementation. LPFM stations would increase media diversity and give schools, churches and other civic organizations a greater voice on the airwaves and in their communities. They have the money, but we have the numbers. Outvote the industry lobbyists! Sign now!Page 98 of 101 of festival news « First < 96 97 98 99 100 > Last »
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