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.
