Boycott Corporate Media

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ABC/ NBC/ CNN and FOX - evil! most of these corporate media companies are owned by a handful of corporations! i think now its only 2! due to the fact the laws about corporate media monopolies have been made very lax.

They are often pushing hte corporate agenda. demonizing and dehumanizing people and places in order to push this agenda. So please dont buy into thier crap and boycott them as much as possible.

I would love to hear ppl’s opinions on the matter!!! oh and please share alternative media outlets that you know are unbiased. :slight_smile:

the one’s i like are:
democracy now: http://democracynow.org/
Pacifica radio network: http://www.pacifica.org/stations/
Wbai: http://www.wbai.org/
IRNA - Irani news in english: http://www.irna.ir/en/

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Every TV channel that I know of is biased one way or another. I think BBC radio service is better than most.

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very nice thread, Farwah. right on the dart!
here are a few more :>

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0221223

http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm

http://eatthestate.org/07-03/DeclarationWarAgainst.htm

http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/mediacrit.html

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do u live in the US! because if you do, they are biased b/c they are owned by, i think its 2 now, all the media in this country - i.e. in the US is owned by 2 people.

BBC is non-US! i highly recommend u check out the alternative media outlets suggested here. BBC is pretty good.

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all media owned by two people? how does that explain public corporations

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i stand corrected its 6 corporations! i dont think any have merged yet to the best of my knowledge! if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. but ofcourse there is always that fear … u can look up whats going on by google - ing “media consolidation”

this is from NOW the show by bill moyers: http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/localmedia.html (good website u can keep track of who own what in the US - in terms of the big 6 corp.'s that own our media.

What makes hit swhole problem specially difficult is that these corporations are very powerful and thus laws that would protect us and keep them from merging are becoming very lax, not to mention they have great very well paid lawyers, and so often times even the courts come out on thier side (see the next reply)

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Media Consolidation:

Take Two in the Fight Over Media Ownership

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In 2003, the Federal Communications Commission approved, by a vote of 3 to 2, sweeping rules to permit big media to get even bigger. Under the rules approved by the FCC three years ago, one company would have been able to own up to three television stations, the local newspaper, the cable system and up to eight radio stations in one media market.

The FCC voted these rules changes in a process that allowed minimal public involvement. The FCC held only one hearing on its new rules, in Richmond, Virginia.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell drew a firestorm of criticism for ignoring the public’s views, and for failing to state, specifically, what the FCC intended to do.

But FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein got the word out, traveling across the country and appearing at unofficial public forums. Thousands of people turned out, despite the fact that the mainstream media largely ignored the issue.

In the end, about 3 million Americans voiced their concerns about media consolidation to the FCC and Congress. Elected officials of both parties objected to the rules changes. In the Senate, a resolution rolling back the rules changes sponsored by Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), passed overwhelming by a vote of 55 to 40.

Media activists sued the FCC over the rules changes, and they were vindicated by a federal district court in Philadelphia. The court in 2004 threw out the rules, and told the FCC to go back to the drawing board.

On June 21, 2006 the FCC began the process to once again revise its media ownership rules. This time, a new FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, has said: “Public input is integral to this process,” and has said that the Commission will hold “half a dozen public hearings around the country” on the issue. The public will have 120 days to respond to the FCC’s call for comments.

Six hearings are better than one, but far from adequate. And the process Martin has begun is far from perfect. Once again, the FCC has failed to state specifically how it intends to change the media ownership rules. What the FCC has proposed, said Commissioner Adelstein, is “thin gruel for those hoping for a meaty discussion of media ownership issues.”

Nor has Chairman Martin committed to changing the rules in a comprehensive way, since lifting any one media ownership limit has an impact on all other rules. The FCC also is embarking on these rules changes before it has completed its work analyzing how well the media serves the public’s need for local news and information and presents diverse points of view.

“Will we repeat the mistakes of the past?” Commissioner Copps asked at yesterday’s meeting. “Or will we work for a process and an outcome that respects that millions of Americans that care deeply about their communities’ media and what their kids watch, hear and read?”

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