News - Media issues, daily
- Free Press selections (Selected stories)
- Reclaim the Media selections (Selected stories)
- AlterNet selections (Selected stories)
- Media Channel selections and archive (Selected stories)
- Media issues, selected topics, daily
- War-and-media issues daily [AlterNet] (War and peace)
- War & media issues daily [Media Channel] (War and peace)
- Liberties-and-media issues daily [AlterNet] (Liberties and rights)
- Monopolies & media issues daily [Free Press]
- Monopolies & media issues daily [Media Channel]
- Internet-for-all issues daily [Free Press]
- Public broadcasting / PBS issues daily [Free Press] (Noncommercial licensees)
- Labor & media issues daily [Free Press] (Labor)
- Labor & media issues daily, audio 3 mins stream [WIN] (Labor news today, a 3 minute audio stream)
- Special announcements, including Chicago
- Chicago Independent Media Guide (.pdf) (New booklet, published 9/04)
- Some past announcements
- U.S. & world news, daily
- Democracy Now! (Headlines, audio, video)
- Common Dreams (Headlines, wires, popular columnists)
- Information Clearing House (Periodicals links, articles)
- ------------------------------------------------
- Chicago Media Action (CMA) homepage (Chicago group)
- News dissector web log, Danny Schechter (Popular commentator)
- CMA recent newsletter / archive (Tip: Edit URL for any month)
- Independent media in Chicago
- Chicago Independent Media Guide (.pdf) (New booklet, published 9/04)
- Labor Beat television / Labor Express radio (Web site)
- Chicago Independent Media Center video project (Found on the Chicago IMC web site)
- Chicago public access cable channels, CAN-TV
- Working class / labor media [Labor Beat / Labor Express] (Labor Beat)
- Indy Media Center U.S. & world cities (You can post to newswire. Includes Chicago.)
About Media Issues Links - Media Issues Links, homepage, www.9898.us/mi (Source of this menu)
- Compose email to editor Bob Gallie (Opens your email program)
- Temporary items await editor work
- Labor Beat PSA video (30 sec, .mpg)
- agre too
- Trade issues & media
- Noncommercial broadcasting licenses Chicago (not ready) (Public / educational special noncommercial licenses)
- CIMG first edition, 7/4/2003 (PDF)
- 'CMA pickets Viacom at CBS Chicago' (Viacom suppresses investigation to protect incumbent)
- LaborBeat site PSA video (30 sec, .mpg)
The Issues - Monopolies & media .. (Corporate monopolies control media)
- Internet for all (Corporations lobbying U.S. to get pricing power. Poor and working class limited future.)
- Public stations issues
- Chicago's Channel #11
- Petitions filed against FCC licensing WWCI for Chicago TV #11 again (8 more years at stake)
- Elitist WWCI board will not serve the working class public (Board has the license for public channel #11)
- Send a Four Demands email (To board chairperson)
- WWCI will not do urgent local forums (Working class leaders & community organizations refused)
- Channel Eleven Steals From The Poor To Help The Rich (Taxes, charity funds, and special licenses now subsidize ads to the affluent!)
- For-profit corporations determine the programs (Taxes, charity funds, and special licenses now subsidize ads to the affluent!)
- Public money and charitable donations are mismanaged (Chicago Tribune detailed magazine article)
- The required advisory board is manipulated (Control of members and agenda means no advice)
- Political bias steers programming choices (Right-wing political pressure)
- General information about Chicago Channel 11 (Some basic info about the license and licensee)
- Interesting public tv items. Find on page 'Chicago public television issues'. (Find 'Chicago public television issues' to get the original CMA WTTW Issues page)
- More …
- Trustee McMillan & Sara Lee Corporation (Cary McMillan uses public tv for Sara Lee advertising)
- Picket sign slogans (Marching on Channel 11)
- Major CMA report: 'Elites, Affluence, & Advertising' (Stark scientific results prove WTTW's 'public' is rich, white, and corporate)
- Public TV viewers for sale. Ad kit for commercialized PBS. 17pp .pdf (Completiing the conversion to elite commercial tv)
- 'Public Television's Digital Dreams' (PBS bosses prefer cash bonanzas to public mission)
- Many Public TV managers want commercialization riches (Taxes, charity funds, and special licenses now subsidize ads to the affluent!)
- 'PBS Panders to The Right With New Programming' (More forced politization of public broadcasting)
- miwttwtv.htm (?)
- Noncommercial licenses [FCC] ('Noncommercial-educational stations may not broadcast promotional announcements or commercials on behalf of for-profit entities.')
- Publications and films
- Media issues publications
- Banned by WTTW 11 (Award-winning documentaries that WTTW-TV 11 has refused to broadcast)
- Chicago media (Special Chicago sections)
- Challenge U.S. licenses (CMA showed can be pro se, many stations, appending groups' statements!)
- Organizing opportunity even if petitions doomed
- More… (not ready items)
- map rx to stations rx
- mi issues page for station by station ../mi/index.htm
- CMA TCP FCC pdf list sb ala rg by nos bbm maq ls gn ttw ock ycc fbt ciu och fld ede cpx sns pxe xft 64cq gbo
- CMA TCP FCC pdf list sb ala rg by nos bbm maq ls gn ttw ock ycc fbt ciu och fld ede cpx sns pxe xft 64cq gbo
- CMA TCP FCC pdf list sb ala rg by nos bbm maq ls gn ttw ock ycc fbt ciu och fld ede cpx sns pxe xft 64cq gbo
- CMA TCP FCC pdf list sb ala rg by nos bbm maq ls gn ttw ock ycc fbt ciu och fld ede cpx sns pxe xft 64cq gbo
- study behind map's
- wgn-tv rx
- cma map rx incl ss
- map site links specifica to ptd
- me on lessons learned for other areas and future essay
- the petition
- the coverage
- responses too big but here s wgn-tv
- groups ucc … say don’t streamline
- CMA MAP FCC petition
- the press release
- St. Louis media .. (Corporate monopolies control media)
- Monopolies & media
- Monopolies & media ['Now' television program site]
- FCC matters [Media Alliance site]
- The companies (A few world corporations control information)
- Viacom International Inc. (CBS, Infinity, Paramount, MTV, …)
- Clear Channel Inc. (1200+ radio stations!, billboards, concerts, …)
- more cc
- Tribune Company (Chicago Tribune, WGN-TV, WGN-AM, WB, Cubs, …)
- Walt Disney Company (Disney, ABC, ESPN, …)
- General Electric (NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, …)
- Murdoch incl. News Corp. incl. Fox (Fox, New York Post, Harper Collins, …)
- ComCast (Cable systems throughout U.S.)
- New York Times Company (New York Times Company, …)
- Gannett (USA Today, …)
- Time Warner (Time, Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, AOL)
- Bertelsmann AG Corporation (Random House, Bantam Dell, Crown Books, …)
- Vivendi Universal Within GE now? (Polygram, Motown, …)
- Trinity Broadcasting (National religious series, no localism)
- Columbia Journalism Review summaries (Corporations' media empires)
- Broadband / cable issues .pdf (Municipalites instead of giant companies)
- FCC regulation [MAP] (www.mediaaccess.org)
- Public ownership model (Municipalites instead of giant companies)
- War & media [AlterNet]
- War & media [MediaTank]
- Racism & media [FAIR]
- Liberties & media [AlterNet]
- Liberties & media [Now]
- Working class issues & media [UPPNet] (Quarterly UPPNet newsletters)
![War & media [MediaTank]](../3/mediatanklogo.gif){kind=link}
Links - The organizations
- FAIR (Publishes issues overviews)
- Free Press (Publishes issues overviews)
- Reclaim the Media
- AlterNet
- Chicago Media Action
- Media Channel (Media Channel)
- Media Alliance
- MediaTank
- Media Matters (Monitoring conservative misinformation in the U.S. media)
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Common Cause media section (Lobby for some limits on monopolies)
- Center for Media and Democracy (Reporting media spinning of information. PR Watch investigative magazine.)
- GRIID (National and local media reform activists.)
- Metropolitan Chicago Progressive Media Network (National and local media reform activists.)
- Media Democracy Day (National and local media reform activists.)
- Media Access Project (Public interest telecommunications law firm)
- Office of Communications, UCC (Legal champion for media rights)
- Media Democracy (Media Democracy Legal Project esp. vs. monopolies)
- Chicago Media Watch (Media conferences, education projects)
- Labor Beat's labor & media links with comments (Labor media)
- More organizations [Media Channel list]
- More organizations [Free Press list]
- Media lists, national and localities [FAIR] (Includes links to localities lists)
- Chicago media info and issues (Our unique gathering of activist info.)
- NOW, the television series
- Some Chicago columnists (Selected local writers)
- Michael Miner, Chicago Reader (Serious weekly commentary on Chicago media)
- Ted Cox, Chicago Daily Herald (Media as entertainment and business)
- Robert Feder, Chicago Sun-Times (Media as entertainment and business)
- Steve Macek site, links with comments (Communications professor & activist)
- Publications and films .. (section needs work)
- Chicago city information (Some stations and general Chicago information)
- Media issues publications (Selected books, movies)
- The Public and Broadcasting booklet [FCC] (FCC laws. E.g. Public tv-radio cannot legally have commercials…)