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Mapping the Community TV Landscape
by Rob McCauslandSustaining 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 RosenbergBerkeley 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 CalamariMedia 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 MartinMedia 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 RosenbergHuffington 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 RosenbergHuffington 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 KushnickAlternet
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 RosenbergFree 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 Menhttp://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 JeromeThe 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 ReinishSaveTheNews.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?

What DID They Mean by That? A Week of Truthiness and Media
by Tracy RosenbergHuffington Post
In my job as director of Media Alliance, many things pass my desk that generate moments of disbelief, but the 1st week of August was truly remarkable.

Internet must remain neutral, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
by Charles ArthurLondon Guardian
Access to data online must not be limited, founder of the world wide web tells Nokia World conference.

Reality Unreeled
MA volunteer Alex Barrows was part of the Paper Tiger Television production team for this "reality" expose.

Oakland Municipal WiFi Study Concludes with a Whimper
Oakland, a city with a digital divide as intense as anywhere in the United States, concluded a much-heralded city study on a possible municipal broadband network in July.

One World Radio: Live from the Allied Media Conference
by Radio Rootz KBCS, RTM and PRP
Our friends at KBCS- Seattle, Reclaim The Media and the Prometheus Radio Project present an hour-long program of interviews and feature stories from the Detroit radical media conference that preceded the Social Forum.

From Mississippi to Arizona
by Linda BurnhamTruthout.org
The room was small,http://www.truth-out.org/burnham-from-mississippi-arizona-for-freedom-and-human-rights60434 but it was filled with enormous possibility. And everyone in there knew it.

Fresno Residents Fed Up With Hate on the Radio
by Samantha Claire Bell
June 17th, 2010
Fresno community group leaders have joined forces to ask the area's most popular talk radio station, KMJ, to make changes to their programming. According to spokesperson, Les Kimber, the group Citizens for Civility and Accountability in Media (CCAM) was formed in October 2009 out of concern about what is broadcast daily on their local radio station.

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