FCC Commissioners Copps & Adelstein in Boston Tuesday 10/23 Forum: Media Ownership Concentration

[Ian David]

FCC Commissioners Copps & Adelstein in Boston Tuesday 10/23 Forum: Media Ownership Concentration
by rougegorge
Fri Oct 19, 2007 at 12:24:33 PM PDT

If you're in the Boston area, Democratic FCC commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein will be at Emerson College on Tuesday, October 23, from 2-4 pm, in the Bill Bordy Auditorium, 216 Tremont St. on the Emerson campus. It's free and open to the public. Make your voice heard!

And, here's the link to contact your congressperson through FreePress and StopBigMedia Call on Congress to Hold Hearings on Media Ownership!
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/fcc_oversight

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It's important to let the two Democratic FCC Commissioners know how you feel by showing up at this forum as well as by sending the FCC letters and emails. We need them to be as strong as possible on this issue. (I read somewhere that Adelstein was thinking about compromising on some of these issues, so he needs to hear from us!)

It is also as important to contact your Representative to exert pressure on the FCC Chairman, to stop him from railroading this through so quickly without time for citizen response or court challenges. Until we have a Democratic president, we do not have the deciding vote at the FCC (it's 3R - 2D right now). And the Telecommunications Act of 1996 happened under the watch of Bill Clinton (it was a complicated bill that had as much good as bad in it, so it may not have been obvious what the fallout from it would be at the time).

I also recommend that you contact Edward Markey, whether or not your are in his district, as he is Chair of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet which oversees these issues.
http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=6

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/19/15455/799