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The Media Democracy Legal Project has grown from the work of the [[Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community]] and the Cultural Environment Movement , working with lawyers from the [[National Lawyers Guild]] and other legal professionals, in conjunction with the [[Media Alliance of San Francisco]]. | The Media Democracy Legal Project has grown from the work of the [[Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community]] and the Cultural Environment Movement , working with lawyers from the [[National Lawyers Guild]] and other legal professionals, in conjunction with the [[Media Alliance of San Francisco]]. | ||
| − | ==Media Democracy== | + | ==Media "Monopoly"== |
| + | From the MDLP website; | ||
| + | Q:What is "the Media Monopoly?" | ||
| + | A: Today the media is mostly owned and controlled by a half dozen or so megacorporations. These few giant corporations carefully control the narrow range of allowable information, dialogue, and debate in our "free society." This monopoly of the flow of information is in direct conflict with our Constitutional Rights. | ||
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| + | ==Media "Democracy"== | ||
From the MDLP website; | From the MDLP website; | ||
Q:What would real Media Democracy, look like, how would it work? | Q:What would real Media Democracy, look like, how would it work? | ||
Revision as of 01:42, 28 February 2011
Media Democracy Legal Project
The Media Democracy Legal Project has grown from the work of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community and the Cultural Environment Movement , working with lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild and other legal professionals, in conjunction with the Media Alliance of San Francisco.
Media "Monopoly"
From the MDLP website; Q:What is "the Media Monopoly?" A: Today the media is mostly owned and controlled by a half dozen or so megacorporations. These few giant corporations carefully control the narrow range of allowable information, dialogue, and debate in our "free society." This monopoly of the flow of information is in direct conflict with our Constitutional Rights.
Media "Democracy"
From the MDLP website; Q:What would real Media Democracy, look like, how would it work?
A: A real Media Democracy would reserve at least 50% of the broadcast channels for a diversity of non-profit independent stations, both of great diversity in opinion and representing the many multicultural groups of this nation. Full information and debate would be encouraged, as well as a range of cultural and artistic expression. To fund this important expansion of democracy, the half of the air waves spectrum open to commercial use would be leased at fair market value for the tens of billions of dollars per year it is worth. Elected national and regional commissions would fairly distribute the funds generated by this new broadcasting system that would support non-profit broadcasting.
Personnel
Serving on the Board of the Media Democracy Legal Project:
The Rev. Paul Sawyer, Pasadena
- Robert Alpern, UUJEC, Sonoma County
- Dorothy Patterson, Oakland
- Glenn Terrones, Los Angeles
- Dan Fiske, Los Angeles
- Dr. George Gerbner, Philadelphia
- Paule Cruz Takash, Los Angeles
MDLP Legal Team includes:
- Jonathan Lubell, Manhattan
- Alan Korn, San Francisco
- Glenn Terrones, Los Angeles
Project Administrator is:
- Henry Kroll, San Francisco
Advisors Include:
- Ben Bagdikian, Dean Emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
- Liane Casten, Chicago Media Watch
- Dan Fiske, National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals
- Dr. George Gerbner, Cultural Environment Movement
- Pam Kelly, Former Director, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
- Paul Kurtz, Council of Secular Humanists
- Joan Levin, Chicago Attorney
- Mark Lloyd, Director, People for Better TV
- Dr. Robert McChesney, Univ. of Illinois
- Ward Morehouse, Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
- John Nichols, * Political Editor, The Nation
- Jeff Perlstein, * Executive, Media Alliance
- Professor Peter Phillips, Project Censored
- Jo Seidita & Nick Seidita, Alliance for Democracy
- Norman Solomon, FAIR
- Dr.Jerold Starr, Founder, Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting