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Media Chain Gets Media-Reform Video Pulled From YouTube

Dave Saldana, Save the News. July 8, 2011.

As internet providers take the government's place as copyright enforcers, a media-reform organization finds itself shouted down by a chain of TV stations.

Congress's Plans to Alter the Espionage Act Are Clearly Unconstitutional

Geoffrey R. Stone, AlterNet. January 5, 2011.

Congress's proposed SHIELD Act tramples over well-established 1st Amendment rights.

How the FCC Can Protect the Internet from Pro-Corporate Judges and Greedy Telecoms

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. April 15, 2010.

Net neutrality ensures a fair Internet. The telecom industry has the money and power to make sure that doesn't happen -- but the people (and the FCC) can fight back.

Glenn Beck Sees a Communist Under Every Rock

Free Press, October 15, 2009.

FOX News' Glenn Beck makes it seem like everyone and everything is a communist, socialist or fascist. What happens when people go looking for them?

Palin Complains: My First Amendment Rights Are Threatened by Criticism

Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post. October 31, 2008.

"If anything, Palin has this exactly backwards, since one thing that the First Amendment does actually guarantee is a free press."

FISA Bill's Real Target: What Remains of Our Open Society

Chris Hedges, LA Times. July 12, 2008.

The new FISA law uses terrorism as a pretext to permit wholesale spying and would seriously cripple our free press.

Murdoch Opens Corporate News Theme Park

Davin Hutchins, American News Project. June 24, 2008.

"Newseum" epitomizes everything bad about the commercialization of news.

The Road to Better Media

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 12, 2008.

Activists are creating alternatives to mainstream media and holding corporate media giants accountable. The corporations are pushing back.

Bill Moyers: 'Journalism in Profound Crisis' (Video)

Bill Moyers, Free Press. June 7, 2008.

The legendary journalist electrifies packed crowd at National Conference for Media Reform.

Civil Rights Groups and Telecom Watchdogs Split On Mobile Merger

Jamilah King, December 31, 1969.


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