Wednesday, March 23, 2011
---How to take back our media:
--ATTN: blogees: several times at the BookClub I mentioned how corporations are taking over America's media, and I met up with disagreements. I have paid close attention to media issues (reading Robert McChestney, Lawrence Lessig, Amy Goodman, and Eric Alterman @ The Nation magazine; along with the blogs: www.mediamatters.org & david.a.dobbs@gmail.com). Big media is taking over radio, broadcast TV, the newspapers; they have tried to debunk NPR and PBS, and public libraries--trying to deny their public funding. The people rallied to save our media since 2003. It is now deja vu all over again. We have to write to our Congress-officials ASAP to ask them to please rescue our public treasures, our libraries and our public broadcasting. Anyone who wants to get involved can attend The National Conference For Media Reform (NCMR)--- to learn How To Confront the Big Business Take-Over of American Media --- April 8-10 --- @ the Boston Seaport Trade Center ---to register: www.freepress.net the people of the ScienceBookClub know that I am a public media supporter---who lists each month the shows-not-to-overlook on PBS and DW-TV & C-span --- which you can access via Public Access-TV. over&out Carolyn
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Big Media is taking over the news. The stories covered and the way they are covered is intended to show the corporate portfolio in the best light. NBC isn't doing a lot of negative reporting on GE, for example.
ReplyDeleteJust watch as a network "creates" news based on the storyline of a new movie (owned by the parent company), or reports on what happened on their own morning programs, or some faux argument between newscasters at competing shows, etc. It's a joke.
In addition to the alternative news Si listed above, I would add Current TV, Link TV and a steady diet of foreign broadcast and print media.