Media ownership rules are under attack and could lead to massive deregulation, crippling the already paltry diversity of voices in mainstream media.
This event is being streamed live today! Check it out at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/news/PressReleases/media_forum.htm
for info about the event.
AIVF (Association of Independent Film and Videomakers) has a summary including directions to the site at:
http://www.aivf.org/advocacy/columbia.html
A column from yesterday's LA Times:
http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-lowry15jan15,0,485781.story
summarizes the issue in context.
yesterday's Senate testimony on the rules:
http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/kdrive/e011403_telecom.rm
head over here
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=45974&group=webcast
to get access to the entire program in mp3 format. It'll take me a while to upload, but if you see this message a few hours after I've posted here, the files should be over there