Media Action Center is a nonprofit group of concerned residents throughout the United States led by former Emmy-winning broadcaster turned media democracy advocate Sue Wilson. We successfully influence policy at the Federal Communications Commission and at local US TV and Radio stations to ensure We the People are truly served by Our publicly owned airwaves. MAC joined Frequency Forward in filing a Motion to Intervene in ABC/Disney v FCC to ensure viewers, who own the Public Airwaves and whose rights are paramount, has a seat at the table. MAC also joined a current Petition to Deny the broadcast licenses of DISNEY ABC at the FCC. In 2017, MAC forced Entercom to give up its $13.5 million license to KDND for killing a woman in a radio water drinking stunt. That same year MAC empowered local listeners across the country to take Alex Jones off their local radio dials. In 2000, we informed the Supreme Court in FCC v Prometheus Radio that multiple local TV stations with one corporate owner merely duplicate news stories on all its stations; a similar methodology is currently being used in legal cases trying to prevent the Nexstar/TEGNA merger.

Find full journalistic coverage of all this plus Sinclair Broadcasting's shell game and other public interest media issues at SueWilsonReports.com. See also Wilson's documentary "Broadcast Blues" which is more relevant today than when it premiered in 2009. Broadcast Blues.


 

Contact us at Act@MediaActionCenter.net


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Wisconsin Media Watch

Thanks to Hannipocrisy, we now have an online space to keep track of Wisconsin media manipulation:

http://hannipocrisy.wikispaces.com/WisconsinmediaWatch

From this site:

"This is a Wisconsin-centric tool for sharing something heard on the radio, saw on TV or read on the internet. No registration is required.

It allows real people like you to document, timestamp and 'publish' examples of propaganda [which is actually prohibited in the US] as well as excessive bias, public manipulation and many other violations of advertising or electioneering statutes or inadequate representation of the community being served.

A running record will be created and archived for web searches and to share during the crucial one-year public commentary period before a station's FCC license is renewed. Despite the autonomy broadcasters (right and left) love to exploit, their exclusive license to use a particular radio or TV frequency and station call letters comes with a duty to act as a "trustee" of public airwaves, broadcasting in the public's interest. To prevent partisanship of licensing decisions, a one-year public comment period was established for 8 year renewals."