Our good buddies at Chicago Media Action have put the entire Chicago FCC hearing (first discussed in a previous blog post) online here. Do not miss the comments of a KRS-1, who skipped a soundcheck and sped over to address the Commission (found in the section "first panel").
Also, skip not the public comments themselves, in all their violent and angry but still brief glory.
FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps unveiled a New American Media Contract over the weekend at the National Conference for Media Reform, proposing the following tennets:
1. A right to media that strengthens our democracy
2. A right to local stations that are actually local
3. A right to media that looks and sounds like America
4. A right to news that isn’t canned and radio playlists that aren’t for sale
5. A right to programming that isn’t so damned bad so damned often
He further proposed that, because we've actually already paid half a trillion dollars for our currently existing services, that these should be delivered immediately and for free, via televion and radio.
out now