Sign the Media Carta

[Az]

http://adbusters.org/metas/psycho/mediacarta/signmanifesto.jhtml

We the undersigned , are troubled by the way information flows and the way meaning is produced in our society.

We have lost confidence in what we are seeing, hearing and reading: too much infotainment and not enough news; too many outlets telling the same stories; too much commercialism and too much hype. Every day, this commercial information system distorts our view of the world.

We have lost faith in the institutions of the mass media. A handful of corporations now control more than half the information networks around the world. At a time when people worldwide face hunger, social disruption, war and ecological collapse, only those who know how to walk the walk, talk the talk or pay big bucks are getting their message across.

We have lost hope that our national media regulators will act in the public interest. Essential rules limiting media ownership and concentration are being scrapped, while rules protecting local content and access are diluted.

We have lost patience waiting for reform.

We imagine a different system – a media democracy. We see great promise in the open communications of the internet and want that openness expanded into every form of media. We envision a global system of communications that has as its foundation the direct, democratic participation of citizens. To this end, we demand the timely transfer of key media sources back to the people.

As a start, we demand the right to buy radio and television airtime under the same rules and conditions as advertising agencies. We ask our media regulators to set aside two minutes of every broadcast hour for citizen-produced messages. We want the six largest media corporations in the world broken up into smaller units.

What we ultimately seek is a new human right for our information age, one that empowers freedom of speech with the right to access the media. This new human right is: The Right to Communicate.

We hereby launch a movement to enshrine The Right to Communicate in the constitutions of all free nations, and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[Az]

1. Self Kick

Go look, see.

[haele]

2. Kick for Az

n/t

[Liberty Belle]

3. Can we all sign and media blast this? Great! Kick kick kick kick!

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This seems a backward way to do it to me.

Asking for credit from places that have been discredited like government agencies and corporate boardrooms seems like putting the cart before the horse IMHO.

Building audience outside of TPTB shadows is where the real potential and power is at any movement that is to be self-empowering, resilient and independent is where it's at. Relying on the powers outside the audience is tantamount to having the audience to being marginalized by them. Understanding the all or nothing principle as it relates to what the iron fist and what it uses when it takes off it's velvet glove is how I understand it.

Everybody will ask for acceptance but the unknowing are the only ones that give it willingly. If knowledge is power how could we have so much at our fingertips and not understand it?

Analysis: Tenet calls for tough cyber security rules

By SHAUN WATERMAN, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Former CIA Director George Tenet called Wednesday for tough new security measures to guard against attacks on the United States using the Internet, which he called "a potential Achilles heel for our financial stability and physical security."

"I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," Tenet told an IT security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control."

The national media, including United Press International, were excluded from the event at Tenet's request, organizers said, but UPI was given an account of the speech by a member of the audience. The quotes were verified by a source close to the former director.

Tenet's speech articulated widely shared concerns among U.S. intelligence and homeland security officials that telecommunications -- and specifically the Internet -- represent a backdoor through which terrorists and other enemies of the United States can attack the country, even though some progress has been made in securing the physical infrastructure.
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http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/12010000aaa02cfe.upi&Sys=print&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World
http://www.cursor.org/

[JNelson6563]

5. Done

and a :kick:

Julie

[Az]

6. Kick for the daylight crowd