Concerned About Media Consolidation?
February 3rd, 2007Worried that mega-corporations will once again pressure the FCC this year to allow the big media companies to take over more of your news and entertainment options?
Watch Book TV on C-SPAN II and see the show “After Words,” about author Eric Klinenberg and his book “Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media.” He is interviewed by Ben Scott of FreePress.Net and the show airs on Saturday, February 3 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, February 4 at 6 p.m. and at 9 p.m.
Show Description: Eric Klinenberg is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of “Heat Wave,” about the 1995 heat wave that took the lives of over 700 people in Chicago. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, “Fighting for Air,” looks at the control of local media by companies like Clear Channel, Sinclair Broadcasting, and the Tribune Company. Prof. Klinenberg is interviewed by Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press (www.freepress.net) and co-editor of “The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century.”
For more information, go to C-SPAN’s Book TV.
Tags: Net Freedom
February 8th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Glynn,
Large corporations are looking to the FCC because the current ownership regulations are outdated and do not take into consideration all the avenues of communication that are available to consumers including the internet, cable, satellite, wireless, etc.
I am working with the national association of broadcasters and it is imperative that local stations be able to compete with all these avenues for advertising dollars or else local stations will be forced to shut down.
Please keep your local broadcasters in mind when writing about media ownership rules.
Oh, check out this great blog, Who Owns the Media for additional information.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Seems to me local broadcasters are making a fortune saying there is no such thing as global warming, and pushing god and Republican White House PR as news. As long as they tell me when the tornado is on the way, and who won the Alabama football game, they will have an audience - and advertisers.
Alabama Power, Entergen and Exxon alone should keep them in business, with a little help from the mega churches.
All I want is a free, free Internet, at a very high speed, and not to be discriminated against by the telecommunications and cable giants for who gets to see my Web content and how fast…