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Author: Dirk Koning and Amy Goodman No doubt you ve been reading article after article sounding a clarion call against corporate media consolidation - and for good reasons. But as we choke on the...
View ArticleReport on the Public Media Caucus
Author: Alyce Myatt Convened on May 3, 2005 by the Center for Digital Democracy at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco coinciding with INPUT, the caucus was attended by over 70...
View ArticleShould People Who Don't Watch TV Care About What's on TV?
Author: Jonathan Rintels My own highly informal and unscientific survey of many media artists and creators affiliated with NAMAC leads me to this less-than-startling conclusion: many are not glued to...
View ArticleMedia Reform Steams Into St. Louis: The National Conference for Media Reform
Author: Helen DeMichiel Since Free Press organized its first conference on media reform in November 2003, this new phase of a watchdog movement begun more than fifty years ago is recapturing the...
View ArticleMedia Justice and Media Reform
Author: Jon Stout In the last issue of MAIN, NAMAC co-director Helen De Michiel covered the National Conference for Media Reform, organized by Free Press in St. Louis this past May. After discussing...
View ArticleCorporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
Author: Robert W. McChesney Reviewed by Helen De Michiel Where is the "public interest" in media now? Why has there been virtually no public debate about the 1996 Telecommunications Bill, one of the...
View ArticleChanging the Channel: What the FCC’s Recent Decision on Media Ownership Means...
Author: Harold Feld Among the great paradoxes of modern programming is that at the moment when technology has made it easier and cheaper for independent production companies and media artists to...
View ArticlePublic Space in Cyberspace: Library Advocacy in the Information Age
Author: Libraries for the Future Are you an independent producer, media educator, access center worker, tech head, First Amendment and free speech advocate, community activist, librarian or a citizen...
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Engaging with Net Neutrality
Author: Rachel Allen In the wake of Google-Verizon’s joint policy proposal, people are taking the battle of net neutrality to the streets in a way I haven’t seen before.read more
View ArticleOne-Question Q&A: Vanessa Graber, Prometheus Radio Project
Author: Rachel Allen "If community radio geeks could have a holiday, it would certainly be celebrated with a barnraising."read more
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Q&A: Alex Curtis, The Creators' Freedom Project
Blog Author: Rachel AllenEarlier this month, I chatted with Alex Curtis from Public Knowledge's Creators' Freedom Project, a new initiative that is focused on helping artists promote themselves in the...
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A Short Overview of Native American Telecommunications Issues
Author: Traci L. Morris Tribal lands are among the worst served communities in terms of telecommunications in the United States. According to a 2006 GAO report, only about 69% of households on tribal...
View ArticleNAMAC Policy News Roundup
Blog Author: Belinda Rawlins Each month, NAMAC will look back at the last few weeks for a quick overview of some of the stories we've been watching. We hope you'll find them interesting, too....
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Smart Spectrum Policy Could Open the Airwaves for Artists
Blog Author: Beth McConnellFor the last few weeks, Antoinette Conti has been staring down at me from the sky, and she’s giving me the creeps. The subject of a photograph by artist Zoe Strauss, Conti’s...
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The Awesome Power of Information Infrastructure—And You
Blog Author: Michael CoppsThe first great awakening that struck me when I took office as FCC Commissioner in 2001 was the awesome power of information infrastructure to propel America’s progress in the...
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