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.
| 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? |
 | What DID They Mean by That? A Week of Truthiness and Media by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington 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 Arthur, London 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 Burnham, Truthout.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. |
 | Free The Radio Spectrum by James Losey and Sascha Meinrath, Open Technology Initiative/New America Fdn For the wonks out there: an excellent paper from the Open Technology Initiative on what 21st century spectrum reform looks like. |
 | The Battle to Control Media Systems: The Culture of Professionalism Versus Cultures of Direct Participation
by James Owens, Media-Ocracy Who produces media systems? Answering that question is the only way to understand the culture and politics that such systems will reproduce. |
| Prepaid Cell Phones: The New Crime by Chris Strohm, National Journa; 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 legislation Wednesday aimed at identifying the buyers and users of prepaid cell phones. |
 | NPR Says NPR is Sexist by Tracy Rosenberg, National Public Radio Ombudsman 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 neutrality. |
 | Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue by Scott Sanders and James Owens, Editor and Publisher/Truthout January 29th, 2010 Media justice organizers at the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and MAG-Net have recently produced a brilliant campaign plan ("The Campaign for universal broadband") to win three policies crucial for just and democratic communication: network neutrality, universal broadband and universal service fund reform. |
 | Huffington Post: Single Payer Broadband? by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post March 22nd, 2010 Single Payer Broadband ; The Broadband Plan and the Movement for a People's Media. |
| SSRC Study on Barriers to Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities by Tracy Rosenberg, Social Science Research Council This study draws on some 170 interviews of non-adopters, community access providers, and other intermediaries conducted across the US in late 2009 and early 2010 and identifies a range of factors that make broadband services hard to acquire and even harder to maintain in such communities. |
| Media News Television by Tracy Rosenberg MA started a new twice-monthly show on public access television on media democracy and media justice. Watch the videos! Hour-long version is in the works. |
| MA in the Huffington Post: Why Public Access is Important and You Should Fight to Pass the CAP Act. by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post In May of 2009, I became a public access television producer. Couldn’t have picked a worse time. |
| Broadband in Yo' Face A broadband song for the holidays. Brought to you by Media Alliance and the Bay Area Media Justice Hub. Written and performed by Eloise Lee and Kat Evasco. |