Highlights from the National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis, January 2007
Jesse Jackson at the National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis, January 2007
Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis, January 2007, Part 1
Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis, January 2007, Part 2
Other video clips, audios, media coverage and transcripts are at the Free Press site.
Media Reform Information Centre - lots of links to advocacy groups, articles/books, and progressive media reform outlets (U.S.), from the Corporate Accountability Project.
Social Science Research Center, Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere.
Canadian Activism
MediaReform.ca – Canadian group
Canadians for Democratic Media
Tom Barrett. News Media Revolt? McChesney Rallies Growing Movement. The Tyee, November 17, 2007.
More resources re US and Media Reform
Bettig, Ronald V. and Jeanne Lynn Hall. (2003) Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics. Lanham. MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Chaudrey, Lakshmi. February 20, 2002. Mega Media Merger Mania. Alternet. URL: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12451
Dreazen, Yochi J. and Joe Flint. June 3, 2003. FCC Eases Media-Ownership Caps, Clearing the Way for New Mergers. The Wall Street Journal, p. A1.
Epstein, Edward. October 14, 2003. Congress tries to put clamps on media mergers. San Francisco Chronicle. URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/14/MNG3P2AS9J1.DTL
Labaton, Stephen. June 25, 2004. Court Orders Rethinking of Rules Allowing Large Media Companies to Expand. The New York Times, pp. –
Labaton, Stephen. June 23, 2004. Senate Votes to Repeal Media Rules. The New York Times.
Labaton, Stephen. July 24, 2003. FCC Media Rule Blocked in House 400-to-21 Vote. The New York Times: A1.
McChesney, Robert and John Nichols. (December 20, 2001). The Making of a Movement. The Nation.
McChesney, Robert. (2004). The Problem of the Media: US Communication Politics in the 21st Century. NY: Monthly Review Press. Website for the book.
McChesney, Robert, Russell Newman, and Ben Scott. (2005). The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century. NY: Seven Stories Press.
Nichols, John and Robert McChesney. (2005). Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media ell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy. NY: The New Press.
Powell, Michael K. April 8, 1998. The Public Interest Standard: A New Regulator’s Search for Enlightenment. Speech Given to the American Bar Association 17th Annual Legal Forum on Communications Law, Las Vegas, Nevada. URL: http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Powell/spmkp806.html
Stern, Christopher. March 15, 2002. FCC Gives Cable Firms Net Rights. Washington Post: E1.
Leslie Regan Shade, Media Reform in the United States, web post for Mediascapes: New Patterns of Canadian Communication, 2nd ed., Nelson Thomson, 2005.
Web Resources
Media Reform Information Center
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Center for Public Integrity, Well Connected
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