From landmark victories for the open Internet to pushing media issues into the election spotlight, it's been quite a year for media reform -- and for Free Press. Help seize an historic opportunity in 2009 by making a contribution to the Free Press Action Fund.
In his December 6 YouTube address, President-elect Barack Obama outlined plans to "renew America's information superhighway" and invest in 21st century broadband infrastructure to restore our economic competitiveness.
From ThinkProgress.org: On ABC’s This Week roundtable, conservative columnist George Will claimed that the economy may only be suffering from a “financial problem” while the rest of the economy is performing “rather well.”
In 2007, mainstream pundits laughed repeatedly at analysts like Peter Schiff -- who accurately predicted America's current economic woes. And some pundits are still claiming that America's overall economy is "doing rather well.”
Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Ben Stein get into a "screamathon" over the government's economic bailout plans -- just as Americans need real journalism and debate most. (Hat tip to CrooksandLiars.com)
This week's Media Minutes podcast looks at shock jocks and toxic smears -- like Michael Savage's recent claim that the Obama administration will conduct a "wholesale firing of competent white men" and "stir up a race war."
"The Daily Show" collected this sampling of Fox News's recent post-election Obama coverage. America needs real journalism now -- not more fear-mongering and junk news.
MSNBC counts down the ten "most ridiculous" news stories from campaign 2008. A case study of how hyper-commercial "junk news" can trivialize our democracy.
Tim Karr of FreePress.net talks about the FCC's historic vote on whether to open up unused "white spaces." This spectrum could be used to provide affordable wireless Internet access across America.
Attack ads may be bad news for our democracy -- but Big Media companies are laughing all the way to the bank, raking in $3 billion in political ads this season.
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By harnessing the unused spectrum between TV channels, America can expand broadband access and bring new forms of entertainment and public safety applications to Americans.
From landmark victories for the open Internet to pushing media issues into the election spotlight, it's been quite a year for media reform -- and for Free Press. Help seize an historic opportunity in 2009 by making a contribution to the Free Press Action Fund.
Attack ads may be bad news for our democracy -- but Big Media companies are laughing all the way to the bank, raking in $3 billion in political ads this season.
By harnessing the unused spectrum between TV channels, America can expand broadband access and bring new forms of entertainment and public safety applications to Americans.
Abdulai Bah of the Community News Production Institute and People's Production House shows how "white spaces" devices can provide affordable Internet to people who don't have it -- and the impact that will have on their everyday lives.
Tech analyst John Paczkowski reports on Comcast's decision to appeal the FCC’s precedent-setting ruling that Internet gatekeepers cannot block users' access to the free and open Internet.
Journalists and St. Paul citizens assembled outside St. Paul City Hall Friday to deliver more than 60,000 letters to Mayor Chris Coleman and prosecuting attorneys demanding that they immediately drop charges against all journalists arrested this week as they covered the Republican National Convention.
Amy Goodman tells Free Speech TV about what happened during her arrest and subsequent release while covering street protests at the Republican National Convention. Stand up for independent journalism and freedom of the press here.
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and two producers have been arrested while covering demonstrations in St. Paul. A press release from Democracy Now! is posted here.
The Reel Grrls project puts teenage women in the director's chair -- including this documentary, "A Generation of Consolidation," by Samantha Muilenburg and Brooke Noel.
