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UPTV To Cablecast National Conference On Media Reform |
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by Greg Boozell
Email: gboozell (nospam) juno.com (verified) |
23 Dec 2003
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Coverage of The National Conference on Media Reform will be telecast on UPTV Channel 6, Tuesdays at 4:00 pm beginning January 6, 2004. |
Coverage of The National Conference on Media Reform will be telecast on UPTV Channel 6, Tuesdays at 4:00 pm beginning January 6, 2004. This historic conference drew close to two thousand people to Madison, Wisconsin this November in response to the call to transform the media into a force that supports democracy and the public interest.
In the conference keynote, Bill Moyers invoked the memory of those in history who fought for freedom of the press and cautioned that “democracy can’t exist without an informed public.” Moyers outlined steps to transform the media system into one “that serves as effectively as it sells” including fighting to keep the gates to the Internet open to all, limiting conglomerate swallowing of media outlets, expanding a noncommercial media system, fighting for a regulatory environment that keeps local and community-based content from being drowned out by commercial programming, and strengthening mainstream journalism as a watchdog over those in public and private power.
Moyers was joined at the conference by FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, conference organizers Bob McChesney and John Nichols, PBS President Pat Mitchell, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Studs Terkel, comedian Al Franken, Senator Russ Feingold, Representatives Maurice Hinchey, Louise Slaughter, and Tammy Baldwin, and the “Tell Us the Truth Tour” with Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Lester Chambers of the Chambers brothers, and, in an impromptu moment, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein on the harmonica.
Video coverage of this conference was produced by Chicago Access Network TV with support from the Joyce Foundation.
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