Conventional wisdom in D.C. was that no one cared about media ownership anymore, but when this plan was exposed it sparked a huge public outcry that turned the tables on the FCC. With the help of civil rights and public interest allies and activists from around the country, Free Press mobilized .. http://www.freepress.net/blog/2012/12/12/news-flash-fcc .. more than 60 members of Congress to oppose the agency’s plan and delivered more than 200,000 petition signatures to the FCC’s doorstep.
Today there are only five African American-owned full-power TV stations, representing a 74 percent decline in just six years. Women own less than 7 percent of all radio and television stations. We need a media that truly represents our country’s diversity .. http://act.freepress.net/go/13465?ak_proof=1&t=6&akid=.9098321.rJrig6 .
So much of the media consistently push damaging stereotypes and butcher coverage of issues critical to women and people of color. The FCC is required to foster diversity in our media — but the agency has been so negligent in its duty that we sued it and won. In 2011, a federal court ordered .. http://www.freepress.net/press-release/2012/3/6/free-press-fcc-ownership-rules-ignore-court-mandate-address-diversity-issues .. the FCC to address the issue before allowing any more media consolidation. But the FCC hasn’t listened, and the rules it’s trying to push through would make things that much worse.
Right now the FCC still refuses to come clean about its timeline, so we don’t know when it will vote on these bad rules. We’ve created some amazing momentum in this campaign, but we can’t stop now.
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