| If you're not a member of MoveOn.org I highly suggest you check them out and sign up -- here's an edited version of the latest email I received -- gives me the chills big time! Let's do what we can to regain our rights for free speech and truth in reporting: "As we move toward an active campaign on the Federal Communications Committee rule change, this bulletin provides a great overview of what's at stake and how next month's decision could shape the future of American journalism. I hope you enjoy it. --Eli" SHOWDOWN AT THE FCC
MoveOn Bulletin
Friday, May 2, 2003
Co-Editors: Don Hazen and Lakshmi Chaudry, AlterNet Subscribe online at: www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin CONTENTS:
- Eli Pariser: Why Worry About Who Owns the Media?
- Jeff Chester: Showdown at the FCC
- Neil Hickey: The Gathering Storm Over Media Ownership
- Bill Moyers: Barry Diller Takes On Media Deregulation
- Danny Schechter: The Media, the War, and Our Right to Know
- Eric Boehlert: Clear Channel's Big Stinking Deregulation Mess
- Paul Schmelzer: The Death of Local News
- Caryl Rivers: Where Have All the Women Gone?
- About the Bulletin
[The full text of the MoveOn Bulletin is online at www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin]Interested in taking on the FCC and other media-related concerns? Join the MoveOn Media Corps, a group of over 29,000 committed Americans working for a fair and balanced media. You can sign up now at: www.moveon.org/mediacorps Join the MoveOn Media Corps"American media outlets have chosen to stifle or simply not show the most terrible and saddening aspects of this war. They are reluctant to air
the voices of critics who are raising important questions about its effectiveness and purpose. And they appear to have acceded to the Bush
Administration's desire to black out pictures or footage of civilian casualties. We need to demand the full picture. The MoveOn Media Corps is a group of committed MoveOn volunteers who will mobilize to push the media to fairly cover this war. The action ideas we send you won't generally take longer than 15 minutes, but to be part of the Corps we ask that you commit to taking up to one action per day. The actions could include calling media outlets when they air especially bad coverage, pushing Clear Channel radio to stop censoring anti-war songs, or writing letters to the editor. "
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