articles tagged as “media+reform”Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices
Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did?
At the recent FCC hearing in the Windy City, citizens came out in droves to voice their displeasure over the media landscape
The voices aired on low-power stations include evangelists, social critics, tomato pickers and indie rockers--all linked by the credo that radio should reflect the heterogeneity of the communities it serves
Our voices are being drowned out by our peers in the supposedly independent media, like Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, who calls Starbucks "the new record store," and music journalists like the Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer, who argued in a piece called "In Praise of Selling Out" that the music industry's decline can be "rescued by corporations that make everything but music"
The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players
This October might be the last chance for local community radio stations to receive high-power licenses from the FCC.
Rate hike pushed by media conglomerate Time Warner threaten small and medium-circulation publications
The tides, they were a-rising in Memphis last month at the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform.… more
During the first day of the third National Conference for Media Reform, 300 people packed the chairs and… more
