Public Blasts FCC on Media Consolidation
PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON ACCESS TELEVISION , 18.12.2007 09:12
FCC "Media Ownership" Public Hearing on Rogue Valley Community Television (RVTV)
Rogue Valley Community Television will cablecast the public testimony given in Seattle, WA. 11/9/07 at the FCC regional hearing on "Media Ownership"
RVTV Schedule
Channel 15 at 6:00 PM
Next three Wednesdays
12/19/07, 12/26/07, 01/02/08
Watch and listen to citizen after citizen offer public testimony that opposes FCC's desire to accommodate corporate media and relax restrictions on how many media outlets a single company can own in a market.
Watch this video for the most compelling public testimony you will ever see!!!
"The FCC will be making their decision soon, I would suspect. They'll surely ignore everything they heard in Seattle."--Jim Lockhart, videographer and access television producer at Portland Community Media.
Clippings for PEG Access Television
Seven MP3 files of the FCC hearing
http://rghm.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/fcc-seattle-media-ownership-hearing-mp3-files/
OTHER MEDIA DEMOCRACY RESOURCES
Reclaim the Media
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/
Media Alliance
http://www.media-alliance.org/
Alliance For Community Media
http://www.ourchannels.org/
Rogue Valley Community Television (RVTV)
http://www.roguetv.org
Portland Community Media
http://www.pcmtv.org/
Jim Lockhart's web page
http://www.philosopherseed.org/
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OTHER COVERAGE OF THE FCC HEARING IN SEATTLE
FCC Gets An Earful On Media Ownership
http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2007/11/19/fcc-gets-earful-on-media-ownership/
Seattle FCC Hearing: Democracy is in their hands: What are they thinking?
http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/11/10/1136/5659
WSU Prof. to Testify Before FCC Seattle Hearing on Media Ownership
http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=6861
from the FCC web page
http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/hearing-seattle110907.html
Seattle Times on the FCC hearing
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004007156_fancher11.html?syndication=rss
More Seattle Times-
Seattle crowd blasts FCC on big media
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004005773_fcc10.html
New York Times on FCC's plans to open up the market for media ownership
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004007156_fancher11.html?syndication=rss
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Martin Votes Big Media: Throw the Rules Out 18.12.2007 - 15:29 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:01:47 GMT It happened. A few minutes ago, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and his two fellow GOP commissioners approved new rules that will unleash a flood of media consolidation across America. The rules will further consolidate local media markets -- taking away independent voices in cities already woefully short on local news and investigative journalism. In 2003, the FCC tried to do the same thing, but millions of people demanded that Congress reject the FCC's rules. And they did. It's time to do it again. We need 100,000 people to get Congress to reverse the FCC's rules right now. Sign Our Open Letter to Congress: http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter/i78kgx6rv6k3mbe?
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This is about whether we will have access to the information that democracy requires. It is about whether or not we'll have real news and local voices on radio, television and in the newspaper in your town. It's about whether the public airwaves will represent our nation's diversity. Just yesterday -- spurred by your calls and letters -- 26 senators from both parties sent a letter to the FCC Chairman promising "to revoke and nullify the proposed rule" if the FCC voted to lift the longstanding ban on "newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership." But Chairman Martin did it anyway. Congress has the power to throw out these rules -- and if 100,000 people demand it, they'll have to listen. Take action now [ http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter/i78kgx6rv6k3mbe?] and spread the word [ http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter/forward/i78kgx6rv6k3mbe?].
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"Robert McChesney, FreePress.net"> FCC failed to provide reasonable notice 18.12.2007 - 19:00 This is cutting edge testimony from brave media people who went to Seattle on just 5 (business days, I think) notice to stop media consolidation. They traveled from all over the Northwest from Alaska, Idaho and Oregon. Testimony includes many young people and several peace activists. i saw the preview> Just who owns the media, anyway? 19.12.2007 - 08:14 WHO? you ask..... LOOKIE HERE http://www.stopbigmedia.com/chart.php
and that chart needs updated, did you notice? News Corp. recently acquired the Ottaway Newspapers which includes two papers in Southern Oregon, the Mail Tribune and the Ashland Daily Tidings.... THE BIG CORPORATIONS OWN THE MEDIA> |