Media & Internet Freedom
"...what will happen to the Internet as a vehicle for expressing our First Amendment freedoms? Certainly religious organizations, non-profits, civic organizations, or ordinary citizens cannot or will not pay the excessive new bottleneck taxes the broadband barons want to charge." -Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA)
Headlines
- 08/27/08 - The Weekly Spin, August 27, 2008
- 08/20/08 - The Weekly Spin, August 20, 2008
- 08/19/08 - The Dems Convention: I Won't Be Politically High in the Mile-High City
- 08/15/08 - Special Report: Ivins Anthrax Case Another Black Eye for Network News
- 08/13/08 - The Weekly Spin, August 13, 2008
- 08/06/08 - The Weekly Spin, August 6, 2008
- 07/30/08 - The Weekly Spin, July 30, 2008
- 07/26/08 - Netroots Nation: Bloggers Becoming a Significant Force for Change
- 07/25/08 - The Weekly Spin, July 23, 2008
- 07/23/08 - So Goes the Newsroom, the Empire and the World
- 07/23/08 - Report from Canada: Death of Free Internet is Imminent
- 07/16/08 - The Weekly Spin, July 16, 2008
- 07/09/08 - The Weekly Spin, July 9, 2008
- 07/04/08 - The Weekly Spin, July 2, 2008
- 07/03/08 - Dan Rather Slams Corporate News at National Conference for Media Reform
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Event
The 2008 National Conference for Media Reform
June 6 - 8 in Minneapolis, this Conference brings together various speakers and issues to engage and spark a conversation focused on improving the quality and integrity of mass media in America. Guest speakers include Dan Rather, Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman and other highly respected figures from all mediums. More information here.
The GNA Platform
Press the politicians to support:
- Strengthening media ownership regulations.
- Creating incentives to encourage local and minority media ownership.
- Opposing media concentration and monopolies as a central principle in licensing all modes of broadcast and public media operations.
- Re-instituting the fairness doctrine, so that a full airing of public issues and controversies in the media takes place.
- Increased public funding for public broadcasting.
- The establishment of public trusts to support independent production of documentary films and noncommercial news programming.
- Legislation to prevent Internet companies from rigging the system to serve only the highest-paying users and discriminate against users they don't like.
Learn More About
the GNA Candidate Survey
Action Alert!
Resources
Bill
Moyers Keynote
Presented to the National Conference on Media
Reform, this speech is an intelligent and sharp indictment of
the "megamedia" companies
and government involvement in information dissemination.
Quote
"The digital convergence of traditional print media, broadcasting,
tele-communications, and the Internet now promises to drive a series
of major policy changes that will substantially reshape the media of
the future and with it, the future of our society. These changes will
go well beyond deciding who owns what networks and newspapers; they will
determine--if not overly select--who will control access to public information
and who will gain access to the very means of communications. "
-Russell Newman & Ben Scott,
The Future of Media
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