Media Alliance : Index

9/11: MA Certification - Proofreading

9/25: MA Certification - Copyediting

10/13: Spokesperson Training

9/4: Matt Gonzalez and Ron Paul - Nonpartisan Aginst War

9/14: Screening: The Band That Wouldn't Die

9/14: Screening: Choosing Children

9/15: Call for Entries: Sonoma Human Dignity Film Festival

9/15: Women Who TeleTech

Victory in Council Tree vs. FCC
On August 24th, the DC Third Circuit Court upheld the Council Tree et al vs FCC case (MA was a ... more

Turning Fox News Into a Private Bad Habit: The Turn Off Fox Campaign
New campaign by Color Of Change to turn public spaces into Fox-free zones more

100+ at Google on Friday
More than 100 people stopped everything on Friday August 13th to tell Google how they really felt ... more

Amid Rumors of Google-Verizon Deal, FCC Pulls out of Net Neutrality Industry Talks
A series of much-criticized stakeholder meetings on the contentious issue of “network neutrality” ... more

Connecting the Issues: USF Reform and Social Justice
Don't get how extending Lifeline service to broadband makes a better world? Here is Mag-net's ... more

Saving Public Access: Washington
On July 21st, CAP Act Sponsor Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin presented and withdrew an amendment to ... more

Looking for Journalism in all the Wrong Places
The news is full of the lack of news. Everywhere pundits, commentators, and academics mourn the ... more

California Assembly Passes Hate Speech Resolution
On June 21, 2010, the California Assembly passed Senator Cedillo's bill condemning an increase in ... more

Toronto Police Give Journalists the Once-Over at G-20 Summit
Numerous reports have been filed on the over-the-top behavior of the Canadian police during the ... more

The Media Attack Cluster
The Left Tracking Library has identified 76 individuals/organizations who compose a cluster of ... more

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What DID They Mean by That? A Week of Truthiness and Media

by Tracy Rosenberg

In my job as director of Media Alliance, many things pass my desk that generate moments of disbelief, but the 1st week of August was truly remarkable.

Elite Control or Community Governance of Public Service Media: Which Will it Be?

by Scott Sanders

We must first understand that the U.S. public media system has been purposefully and severely handicapped by the professional culture of journalism, ..

The Battle to Control Media Systems: The Culture of Professionalism Versus Cultures of Direct Participation

by James Owens

Who produces media systems? Answering that question is the only way to understand the culture and politics that such systems will reproduce.

One World Radio: Live from the Allied Media Conference

by Radio Rootz

Our friends at KBCS- Seattle, Reclaim The Media and the Prometheus Radio Project present an hour-long program of interviews and feature stories from ..

Free The Radio Spectrum

by James Losey and Sascha Meinrath

For the wonks out there: an excellent paper from the Open Technology Initiative on what 21st century spectrum reform looks like.

From Mississippi to Arizona

by Linda Burnham

The room was small,http://www.truth-out.org/burnham-from-mississippi-arizona-for-freedom-and-human-rights60434 but it was filled with enormous ..

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by Tracy Rosenberg

Fresno Residents Fed Up With Hate on the Radio

by Samantha Claire Bell

Fresno community group leaders have joined forces to ask the area's most popular talk radio station, KMJ, to make changes to their programming. ..

Prepaid Cell Phones: The New Crime

by Chris Strohm

Citing the recent attempt to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square, Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced ..