FCC Meeting October 5
From: "SARAH SWISHER" <seiusarah@msn.com>
Make your voice heard!
The Town Meeting on the Future of Media in Iowa City is on October 5 less than a week away. Its crucial that you attend this forum to tell the FCC exactly how media consolidation affects you and your community. FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps will be present to listen to your comments, as will members of local media outlets and grassroots organizations. The forum is your chance to testify before the FCC all comments will be recorded and entered into the official public record to be considered when the FCC again takes up the ownership issue this fall.
When: 7PM October 5, 2005
Where: Pomerantz Center at the University of Iowa (on Market Street, next to Old Brick)
More details can be found at http://www.freepress.net/future/=iowacity
Attend a workshop prior to the hearing to learn how media policy affects ownership, content, and the information we need to participate in democracy. These workshops will give you the chance to consider your own hopes for media that meet your community's needs, and to prepare a 2 minute testimony to present to the Commissioners at the forum.
All Workshops are free and open to the public.
Iowa City:
Monday, October 3, 2005 (TODAY)
Sponsor: Public Access TV
Location: Public Access Television Studio, 206 Lawfayette Street
5:00pm - 6:30 pm
Contact: Liz Preciado: 319-338-7035 or Amanda Ballantyne, <mailto:amanda@freepress.net>amanda@freepress.net
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Sponsor: Iowa City Federation of Labor
Location: AFSCME Office in Eastdale Plaza
1700 South 1st Avenue, Suite 19 (Above the DMV)
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Contact: Maureen Donnelly, maureen.donnelly@mchsi.com or Amanda Ballantyne, amanda@freepress.net
(There will be a bus bringing people from the Quad Cities to Iowa City for the Town Meeting contact Caroline Vernon at 563-323-7852 to reserve a spot on the bus.)
Background: The FCC is about to re-consider broadcast ownership rules the same rules they tried to weaken in 2003, only to be rebuffed by the public and the courts. The agencys chairman will probably try once again to weaken the rules, allowing media companies to gobble up even more local outlets. As FCC Commissioner Michael Copps has said, Those awful rules that an FCC majority passed two years ago to loosen our media protections have been sent back to us by the courts. The bad news is they were sent back to the very same folks who dreamed them up in the first place. They screwed it up once. Believe me, theyre 100% capable of screwing it up again.
Dont let them screw it up again! Come to the Town Meeting on the Future of Media in Iowa City on October 5 and make your voice heard!
Amanda Ballantyne
Field Organizer
Free Press
www.freepress.net
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