This brief statement was submitted by MA to the House Judiciary Committee asking for full broadcast access on the lowest-priced cable system tiers.
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Category Archives: Media Ownership
Mergers, diversity of ownership, and multiple perspectives.
Verizon’s Version of Freedom of Information: 300 Blacked-Out Pages
Verizon responded to a NY consumer Freedom of Information Act request with 300 Blacked-out Pages on Voice Link Deployments
“You are telling me that among the 300 pages nothing was made available?” Robert Freeman, executive director of the Committee On Open Government, asked incredulously” Continue reading Verizon’s Version of Freedom of Information: 300 Blacked-Out Pages
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.
Press Coverage: NY Times, London Guardian, UK Telegraph, The Nation, Al Jazeera English, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Salon.com.
Demonstration Video provided by Firedog Lake.
Fair and Balanced Newscast Video provided by Brave New Films
16 Million Dollar Verdict in Strange Wrongful Death Case
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.
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Future of Music Coalition Study on the Impact of Payola Policies on Playlists.
Artist education, research and advocacy organization Future of Music Coalition announces the release of a report that analyzes radio playlists to determine whether policy interventions resulting from payola investigations have had any effect on the amount of independent music played on terrestrial radio.
Artificial Scarcity: How Data Caps Harm Consumers and Innovation
New America’s Open Technology Institute released this report examining the use of data caps on wired and mobile broadband service in the United States. The report analyzes the financial incentives that major Internet service providers have to implement these usage limits and research that demonstrates the behavioral effect of these policies on consumers.
Another Take on the IP Transition
IP Transition – Phones in the 21st Century
A report from Public Knowledge and the Center for Media Justice on the transformation from legacy phone lines to mobile communications – and the winners and losers in the process.