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Turmoil at PBS
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler discusses the uproar over the Bechtel/Schwab-funded documentary: ... more
Connecting the Issues: USF Reform and Social Justice
Don't get how extending Lifeline service to broadband makes a better world? Here is Mag-net's ... more
Saving Public Access: Washington
On July 21st, CAP Act Sponsor Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin presented and withdrew an amendment to ... more
Looking for Journalism in all the Wrong Places
The news is full of the lack of news. Everywhere pundits, commentators, and academics mourn the ... more
California Assembly Passes Hate Speech Resolution
On June 21, 2010, the California Assembly passed Senator Cedillo's bill condemning an increase in ... more
Toronto Police Give Journalists the Once-Over at G-20 Summit
Numerous reports have been filed on the over-the-top behavior of the Canadian police during the ... more
Ruben Navarette Jr Laid off at San Diego Tribune
Ruben Navarrette Jr., the most widely syndicated Hispanic columnist in the mainstream news media, ... more
The Media Attack Cluster
The Left Tracking Library has identified 76 individuals/organizations who compose a cluster of ... more
Request for Hate Speech Inquiry Launched
A coalition of more than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that the Internet has made ... more
No Net Brutality
Now that the FCC has proposed a partial reclassification of Internet services from Title I to Title ... more
 


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Alliance Blog Media News
Elite Control or Community Governance of Public Service Media: Which Will it Be?
by Scott Sanders
We must first understand that the U.S. public media system has been purposefully and severely handicapped by the professional culture of journalism, ..
The Battle to Control Media Systems: The Culture of Professionalism Versus Cultures of Direct Participation
by James Owens
Who produces media systems? Answering that question is the only way to understand the culture and politics that such systems will reproduce.
One World Radio: Live from the Allied Media Conference
by Radio Rootz
Our friends at KBCS- Seattle, Reclaim The Media and the Prometheus Radio Project present an hour-long program of interviews and feature stories from ..
Free The Radio Spectrum
by James Losey and Sascha Meinrath
For the wonks out there: an excellent paper from the Open Technology Initiative on what 21st century spectrum reform looks like.
From Mississippi to Arizona
by Linda Burnham
The room was small,http://www.truth-out.org/burnham-from-mississippi-arizona-for-freedom-and-human-rights60434 but it was filled with enormous ..
Media Alliance on Facebook - Check us out and become a fan!
by Tracy Rosenberg
Fresno Residents Fed Up With Hate on the Radio
by Samantha Claire Bell
Fresno community group leaders have joined forces to ask the area's most popular talk radio station, KMJ, to make changes to their programming. ..
Prepaid Cell Phones: The New Crime
by Chris Strohm
Citing the recent attempt to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square, Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced ..
NPR Says NPR is Sexist
by Tracy Rosenberg
National Public Radio's ombudsman has released a report headlined "Where Are The Women?". Elsewhere, it seems.
Road Trip: CA Net Neutrality Delegation to Orange County
MA teamed with the LA Media Reform group to travel down to Orange County and the Inland Empire and speak to Dems who aren't supporting net ..