[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Your crucial call for better media

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:20:24 -0400
>Subject: Your crucial call for better media
>From: Robert McChesney <rmcchesney at mediareform.net>
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>Should Congress allow massive media corporations to get even bigger?
>
>This week roughly 75 television network executives descended on 
>Capitol Hill to tell Congress it should -- against the wishes of 
>nearly two million Americans.
>
>But we have been fighting the special interests and it is working. 
>Last week's phone-in campaign brought in 17 new co-sponsors of the 
>FCC rollback legislation in the House, and five co-sponsors in the 
>Senate. It reminded legislators that we are watching what they do, 
>and that we're not going away.
>
>This week, the call-in campaign focuses on the House with a simple 
>message: "We want a media that is diverse, competitive and engaged 
>with the local concerns of our communities. We can only have that if 
>House members support BOTH HR 2462 (Sanders) and HR 2052 
>(Burr-Dingell), measures that will overturn FCC rule changes 
>benefitting big media alone."
>
>Your calls have gotten us this far. Now they can give us a win 
>against one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington.
>
>Take three minutes. Please make the call now!
>
>Visit http://www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc
>
>Simply enter your zipcode and pick up the phone - we provide the 
>names, numbers, and what you might want to say. Call your 
>Representative in the House today!
>
>The past three months have represented a sea change in how media 
>policy is made in America. FCC Commissioner Jonathon Adelstein 
>estimates that nearly 2 million Americans have weighed in.
>Your active participation is the reason Congress may roll back the FCC ruling.
>Please send this email along to anyone else you know who is 
>interested in having a healthy democratic media.
>
>For more information on this issue, visit to www.mediareform.net. To 
>support media reforms efforts like this, join Free Press at 
>http://www.mediareform.net/support.


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
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