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The Bill Comes Due: Telecom Lobbying
by Action Coalition on Media Education, Action Coalition on Media Education
You often get what you pay for. At&T, Verizon and Comcast certainly did. Take a look at these lobbying expenses totals.

Unreported News: Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting Disrupted on May 3rd
by Jonathan Nack, Bay Area Independent Media Center
MA member Jonathan Nack recorded this video of the foreclosure protest that disrupted the annual Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting for over an hour earlier this month.

Brand-new Community Radio Station in Vallejo Draws Racist Graffiti
by Sarah Rohrs, Vallejo Times Herald
The founder of Vallejo Ozcat, the community-based FM radio station, made a disturbing discovery Saturday morning -- racist epithets scrawled on his son's vehicle and the business' mailbox and doorway.

The Broadband You Deserve
by Frank Povah, The Daily Yonder
Reprinted from The Daily Yonder: I live in the country, but not THAT much in the country. I'm 20 minutes from the state capitol of Kentucky and I can't get a decent broadband connection.

The Meta-Report: Media Piracy
by Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council
In an uncharacteristic bit of theater, the Social Science Research Council has released a new report on Media Piracy in Emerging Economies with a Consumers Dilemma. Come from a higher-income country? No free report for you!

Mapping Our Future: Drawing Lines that Matter
by The Greenlining Institute, http://www.greenlining.org
The Greenlining Institute presents Mapping Our Future: Drawing Lines that Matter! a 5 minute video about California Redistricting in 2011 and what is at stake for communities of color.

College Radio: You Will Be Assimilated
by Tracy Rosenberg, The Huffington Post
Like the B-52's? Metallica? The White Stripes? You might have never heard of them if not for KUSF, the venerable San Francisco college radio station that first played their music.

Mapping the Community TV Landscape
by Rob McCausland, Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
The Alliance for Community Media's former director of Information and Organizing Services Rob McCausland provides these illuminating maps in a survey of the landscape of community television across the United States.

KPFA News Criticized
by Tracy Rosenberg, Berkeley City Council
KPFA Radio, has received complaints from 3 Berkeley City Council members and 6 workers on two different incidents in a week on the daily hour-long statewide broadcast of the Pacifica Evening News.

Online Learning: The Answer to the Digital Divide?
by Samantha Calamari, Media Alliance
The latest buzz in education is the growth of online learning communities to address educational access. Through online offerings, education can be more affordable and have the capability to reach communities that otherwise couldn’t access quality institutions.

Censored 2011
The Media Freedom Foundation's 2011 Censored is out with the 25 most under-reported stories of 2010. Please support the work of Project Censored and buy a copy today!

Hungary's New Nationalism: Government Moves to Institute Press Controls
by Abby Martin, Media Roots
Naomi Wolf's book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, argues that there are ten steps common to every state that has made the transition into fascism.

Oakland Police and Cameras
by Maura King
Ma Volunteer Maura King thinks about police, cameras and Oakland's new law enforcement video program.

Be Careful What You Wish For
by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post
Sometimes you might get it. For most of the past year, public interest groups worried about the future of the Internet have pushed for action on net neutrality by the Federal Communications Commission.

Broadband For The People: From The Net To The Roots
by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post
As we grow increasingly dependent on the Internet for everything from soup to nuts:

The $320 Million Broadband Rip-Off
by David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick, Alternet
An excellent article on why Americans pay the most for the least in the developed world.

Jeff Kaufman Film on Americans Detained in Iran
by Tracy Rosenberg, Free The Hikers
Filmmaker Jeff Kaufman made this short film on behalf of Americans Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who have been detained in Tehran's Evin Prison for 474 days. Watch the film!

Yes Men Play Media Comedy With Chevron
by The Yes Men, http://www.theyesmen.org
A day-long comedy of errors began Monday morning when the Yes Men, supported by Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, pre-empted Chevron's enormous new “We Agree” ad campaign with a satirical version of their own.

Supreme Court to Decide if AT&T is a Person
by Sara Jerome, The Hill
The Supreme Court added the case AT&T v. FCC to its docket on Tuesday, ushering in an argument over, basically, whether AT&T has the legal status of a person on certain issues.

No More Bleeding Ledes, Please
by Libby Reinish, SaveTheNews.org
Sensationalism is rampant in our consolidated news system, where scandal, celebrity gossip and violence (or the threat of looming violence) lead the headlines. Ever wonder why this is all we see and read and hear?

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