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 | Media Crisis and Grassroots Response
by Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn Magazine
The media landscape in the US is changing rapidly. As all forms of journalists face massive layoffs, analysts fear that journalism’s role as a counterforce against the powerful is in jeopardy. For progressives and radicals working in media, it’s time to not only question what format news will come in, but also how to approach our work so it is both accountable and sustainable. |
| DOJ Opens Review of Telecom Industry
by Amol Sharma, Wall Street Journal Online
The Department of Justice has begun an initial review to determine
whether large U.S. telecom companies such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon
Communications Inc. have abused the market power they've amassed in
recent years, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| U-Verse Legal Challenge at the FCC
The Alliance for Community Media, and the cities of Lansing and Dearborn in Michigan have filed suit against AT&T's U-verse system for the placement of many local public access stations on one channel with a pull-down menu. This effectively prevents channel surfers from ever encountering their local PEG. Comments are due at the FCC by March 5th. Anyone can file one! Proceeding# 09-13. |
 | BAVC Gets City of San Francisco Contract to Run Public Access Facility
The Bay Area Video Coalition was awarded the contract to run the City of San Francisco's public access facility. While forward-thinking in some ways, the proposal also redefines public access as a little less public than it used to be. Read Media Alliance's comments on the award. |
| Raising Our Voices Rises Again!
Media Alliance's Raising Our Voices Program is back for a third cycle. Entitled Raising Our Voices III: Immigrant Women Speak Out!, the program offers free media training workshops focused on immigration, poverty, gender, labor and social justice in the San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland. |
| Tiny San Jose Low-Power Station Battles KTVU
http://www.boycottktvu.com
KAXT-CA is a Low Power Television station on Channel 22 and has been broadcasting in San Jose since 1990. KAXT filed an application with the FCC in 2007 for a channel, and was waiting for FCC clearance at the time of the DTV transition. The Bay Area is at risk of losing several new television channels with Vietnamese, South Asian, Spanish, Filipino, African-American and other local programming due to a sudden Cox Communications grab for the channel.
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| Tribune Files for Bankruptcy
The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball team struggled to cope with rising debt and falling ad revenue. |
| Limbaugh "Dreaming" of Riots in Denver
DENVER -- Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments that appear to call for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer. |
| FCC Got an Earful on April 17th at Stanford
Thanks to Media Alliance members and our SavetheInternet allies, the FCC hearing at Stanford on April 17th was a stirring call for a free and open Internet, a strong condemnation of random telecom interference with data traveling over their networks, and a clear statement on media in the public interest. |
| Media Alliance and UCC Delay Tribune Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided to put off hearing Tribune's challenge of the FCC's decision to grant it waivers to complete the deal to sell the company to investor Sam Zell due to a lawsuit filed by Media Alliance and the United Church of Christ Media Justice Campaign. |
| Media News - December 3, 2009
Host: Al Kielwasser
Guest: Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
Subject: Media Alliance and the Changing Nature of Media Advocacy |
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