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COMMUNITY GROUPS URGE FCC TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL, PUBLIC MEDIA

May 14, 2010

Alliance for Communications Democracy: CALL FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LOCALISM RULES RELEASE STATEMENT Contact: Rob Brading, rob@metroeast.org, 503-667-8848 x 318 “WASHINGTON (May 13, 2010) — Hundreds of community groups and local residents from across the country urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to strengthen local democracy, media diversity and public safety by supporting the [...]

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FCC Workshop: Public and Other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era: “We haven’t talked about PEG yet,” …and the panelist aren’t going to.

May 11, 2010

“Understand one another?” said Gandalf. “I fear I am beyond your comprehension. But you, Saruman, I understand now too well.” In preparation for Media Working Group’s FCC comments I spent some time reviewing the recent video and documents from the FCC Workshop on Public and Other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era. It was troubling [...]

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