Media Action Center is a group of of concerned residents throughout the U.S. led by former Emmy-winning broadcaster turned media reformer Sue Wilson. We have successfully influenced policy at the Federal Communications Commission and at local TV and Radio stations throughout the country for more than a decade to ensure We the People are truly served by the publicly owned airwaves. (See the archive of our work under "older posts.") We successfully forced Entercom to give up its $13.5 million license to KDND for killing a woman in a radio water drinking stunt. We have a long-running action to label Alex Jones' radio show as the fiction it is, which has taken Jones' program off dozens of radio stations nationwide. We educated the Supreme Court in FCC v Prometheus Radio on critical information to #SaveLocalNews.

Please see MAC's 2018 Comment to the FCC (below) to learn why these actions are crucial to Democracy. Find full journalistic coverage of the Supreme Court case and our Amicus brief, Sinclair Broadcasting's shell game, Alex Jones, the Strange v Entercom trial and other public interest media issues at SueWilsonReports.com. For background on how we arrived in this era of disinformation and what to do about it, see Wilson's 2009 documentary Broadcast Blues.

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Gloats Over Zapple Decision

July 29, 2014

It has just come to my attention that GOP FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai wrote an oped gloating over the FCC's Zapple Decision.  Trouble is, he does not well understand the underpinnings of the decision.  Compare his piece here: http://www.redstate.com/2014/05/30/protecting-free-speech-fcc-regulation/   with the piece I wrote in the BRAD BLOG: http://www.suewilsonreports.com/2014/05/may-19-2014-originally-published-at.html
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PS: I have asked Mr. Pai to speak with the FCC Media Bureau to get them to send me the decision.  It has been two months and I still have not received anything from the FCC about this.  This is especially significant when you realize that as a private citizen, I had to file the Petitions to Deny the Licenses of WTMJ and WISN on paper (via Federal Express.)  The corporate citizens Clear Channel and Journal Communications, on the other hand, had no such burden. They can file electronically.