[SanDPAN] Re: FCC coming to Stanford, California. Take action on media consolidation !

[John Falchi]

Dear friends-
    Mera Szendro Bok has been a valuable, youthful shot in the arm to progressive causes in San Diego and beyond.  She has hit the nail on the head in this recent message.  Our media is OVER-CONSOLIDATED now.  Imagine what it would be like if the multi-nationals got their way with the current FCC commissioners. No, it is time to really make our voice heard loud and clear on this question.
     I am contacting the key influentials I know who can help to get a turnout to this FCC hearing in the Bay area.  If my health permitted I would like to shoot up there myself.  Instead, I am letting my fingers do the talking,  and reaching out on the internet through list servs, social networks, and friends.  Even if this is not your key area of interest these days, would you help us to do likewise.  We are asking concerned citizens to drive down to Palo Alto , CA, abut 30 miles south of San Francisco  on Friday.  Would you do it, if you could?  The particulars follow:

What: Media Ownership Public Hearing
When: May 21, 2010,10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (the public comment section is at 11:45 and 3:30)
Where: Stanford University, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA
*This event is free

It is high time that we start fighting back the corporate menace in our midst.  I see  this move on the part of large corporations to attempt to  increase their control of the media as directly related to the Citizens United decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which, in a 5 - 4 decision, affirmed corporate personhood and granted larger entities, like unions and corporations, increased advantages in electoral finance, wiping out a whole century of campaign finance law.

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From: Mera Szendro Bok <me...@newmediarights.org>
To: sup...@newmediarights.org
Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 10:07:35 AM
Subject: FCC coming to Stanford, California. Take action on media consolidation !

Please see the following email from our friends at Free Press regarding the upcoming FCC meeting on media consolidation in Stanford, California. If you or someone you know will be in the area please share this with them. For addition resources on this meeting read our latest blog.

FRIDAY – FCC at STANFORD
 
The FCC is coming to Stanford on Friday, May 21st, for a public hearing on the impact media consolidation and tech innovation has had on journalism. This is part of their 2010 review of media ownership laws. You probably remember that during the Bush administration the FCC relaxed media ownership laws – particularly the 30 year-old newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban (a move we have shown will hurt newsroom jobs and lead to less local news)
 
Even though President Obama has opposed media consolidation, Big Media has been beating down the door at the FCC. They are pushing the Obama FCC to go even farther than the Bush FCC and dramatically relax media ownership laws, letting absentee Big Media giants control even more local media.
 
This fight is coming to Stanford on Friday, and we need to turn out a crowd to show the FCC the public still cares about media consolidation.
 
What: Media Ownership Public Hearing
When: May 21, 2010,10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (the public comment section is at 11:45 and 3:30)
Where: Stanford University, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA
*This event is free
 
The public hearing on Friday will have time for local communities to weigh in on these issues. We need to be sure the public interest is strongly represented or the only people they will hear from are giant companies.
 
Please share this broadly with others.
 
Some of the panelists include Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora Music, Eddy W. Hartenstein, Publisher and CEO, Los Angeles Times, Jim Joyce, President, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, and Vice President, Communications Workers of America and Alan Mutter, Publisher, Reflections of a Newsosaur, and Tiffiniy Ying Cheng, Co-Founder, Participatory Culture Foundation. The full agenda is here: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-298195A1.pdf
 
If you have questions or want to help with turnout – please contact me.
 
 
Josh Stearns
Program Manager
Free Press :: www.freepress.net
SaveTheNews :: www.savethenews.org
Twitter: @jcstearns
Phone: 413.585.1533 ext. 204

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