Change to Win, CWA, Media Alliance, Media Action Center, Free Press. Avaaz, Occupy LA and others joined to welcome Rupert Murdoch to Los Angeles on October 21st.
| 200+ Protest at Fox Shareholders Meeting in LA Change to Win, CWA, Media Alliance, Media Action Center, Free Press. Avaaz, Occupy LA and others joined to welcome Rupert Murdoch to Los Angeles on October 21st. |
 | Live From Occupy Wall Street Update 11/23 - November has been marked by a series of confrontations over city center encampments all over the country from the Bay's Davis, Berkeley and Oakland to Portland, Atlanta, Chicago and Zucotti Park. The month has also featured an action at the San Francisco Bank of America, a trek from OWS-New York to Occupy DC and many other actions. |
 | AT&T / T- Mobile Merger: Dept of Justice Files To Block Merger Update: Merger Flails Around After DOJ Files Suit |
 | Supreme Court Comes Down on the Side of Video Games in Brown vs. EMA In a decision that pitted anti-violence advocates against web content creators, the Supreme Court struck down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to children under 18. |
 | Community Pushback on AT&T/T-Mobile Update: 6/28/2011 - CA PUC Public Participation Hearing on AT&T Merger: Thursday July 7th at 6:00pm at 505 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, |
 | CDC Survey Confirms Arkansas and Mississippi Top in Cellphone-Only Households A survey by the National Center for Health Statistics identifies Arkansas and Mississippi as the two states with the highest number of cellphone-only households. |
 | Paperwork Reduction or Information Reduction? While as environmentally concerned as anyone, the latest idea to eliminate broadcast public files to save the trees, doesn't sound like a winner in the public interest department. |
 | AT&T / T-Mobile : Looking Like a Disaster by Tracy Rosenberg To this T-Mobile customer, last week's announcement of a proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile sent shivers up my spine. And not just because I anticipate a 25% increase in my monthly wireless bill. |
| New PEG Center Comes to Fresno by Todd R. Brown, The Fresno Business Journal As California reports the loss of 70 community TV channels due to the state's passage of state franchising legislation in 2006, one new center in the Central Valley is coming to life. |
 | Text Message Petition: Take Action Update: T-Mobile censoring Weedmaps.com. When Verizon refused to recognize the Abortion Right Action League's short code back in 2007, a petition with filed with the FCC. It just happened again. |
 | Council Tree vs. FCC - To The Supreme Court Update: Council Tree vs. FCC has filed with the United States Supreme Court to overturn the results of flawed spectrum auctions by the Federal Communications Commission. |
 | Turning Fox News Into a Private Bad Habit: The Turn Off Fox Campaign New campaign by Color Of Change to turn public spaces into Fox-free zones |
| Saving Public Access: Washington On July 21st, CAP Act Sponsor Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin presented and withdrew an amendment to HR 3110 preventing channel-slamming and rearranging funding streams for public, educational and governmental channels. While she was forced to withdraw the amendment, Committee Chair Henry Waxman agreed to :llok more carefully at the issue and see what we can do". |
 | California Assembly Passes Hate Speech Resolution On June 21, 2010, the California Assembly passed Senator Cedillo's bill condemning an increase in media hate speech, particularly against Latinos, and called for more accurate and fair reporting. Text of SCR 58 attached. |
 | The Media Attack Cluster The Left Tracking Library has identified 76 individuals/organizations who compose a cluster of undue influence. There we are: holding up the 7th row. |
 | Collateral Murder: Whistleblowing 2010 Wikileaks - the new whistleblower website - came into being with a bang when they released a classified military video showing US service members shooting 2 Reuters reporters (and six others). |
| Officially The Worst: Comcast Wins by Chris Morran, Consumerist After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory -- it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010. |
| 16 Million Dollar Verdict in Strange Wrongful Death Case by Sue Wilson Sue Wilson reports from Sacramento where the Entercom radio chain was assessed a 16 million dollar wrongful death verdict in the Jennifer Strange case, where the Sacramento mother of three died after participating in a water-drinking contest at Sacramento radio station KDND. |
 | Race In The Media - from Loop 21 The myth of 21st Century U.S. society being post-racial and colorblind is critiqued and analyzed by "theloop21.com, a LA-based African-American owned on-line publication. |
 | Anti-Hate Speech Resolution Passes SF Board of Supervisors Unanimously Update: On September 10th, Clearchannel station KNEW announced they were dropping Savage Nation from their SF schedule. On Tuesday August 11th, San Francisco became the first municipality in the country to support the National Hispanic Media Coalition's petition for an FCC docket and report on media hate speech and its possible impact on hate crimes. The vote was unanimous! |