E.g., Don’t hold your breath that the Democrats will save us. Or that anyone will. It might take something far more dramatic. Perhaps something revolutionary. But it's going to require far more than sitting around watching our TV's to make it happen. Marty Kaplan is a really smart media-reform and political-reform…
Salon's Michael Grieve reports on Michael Copp's address to the YearlyKos Convention. Copps, an FCC commissioner, addressed the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago: a three-day gathering of about 1,500 bloggers and liberal activists. But his address was less a lecture than a call to action. "The country needs you, it needs…
That's what the broadcast license-renewal process has become: a rubber stamp procedure. The following are the words of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: [U]nder pressure from media conglomerates, previous commissions have eviscerated the renewal process. Now we have what big broadcasters lovingly call “postcard renewal” — the agency typically rubber-stamps an application…
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Truthdig.com has produced a video displaying the coordinated smear campaign FOX is running against left wing bloggers. Fox News is out to smear the blogosphere with a slew of unsavory tactics, such as comparing liberal bloggers to the Klan and Nazi Germany. It has already met with some success, prompting…