Big Media is Big Enough Already:
FCC Media Ownership Hearing

On November 9, over 1100 people flooded into Seattle’s Town Hall, to send a message to the Federal Communications Commission: big media is big enough already. That was the night of the last and the largest of six public hearings the FCC held across the country, gathering opinions on the issue of media
consolidation.

Nine hours of testimony at the Seattle hearing left little doubt that the Northwest is unhappy with the state of today’s media landscape – with commercialization gone out of control, with big media’s narrow range of voices and opinions, and with programming that reflects corporate values, not community values.

Reclaim the Media is a grassroots media justice organization, based in Seattle since 2002. RTM works for social justice by organizing for a media system that serves community values rather than corporate values. They fight against consolidated media control, and against racist and sexist media content; and work to expand quality journalism, internet freedom, and access to community media. Become a member of Reclaim the Media, find out more about the issues, and support their work at www.reclaimthemedia.org.

Thanks to the following organizations that helped Northwest communities get organized around the Nov. 2007 Seattle FCC Hearing:
206 Zulu; American Federation of Musicians Local 99, Hollow Earth Radio; KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio; Missoula Community Radio; NAMAPAAH First People’s Radio; Northwest Community Radio Network; Oregon Alliance to Reform Media; Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild/CWA; Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN); Portland Community Media; Puget Sound Access; SCAN-TV; Seattle Times; the Service Board; Washington Bus, Washington State Jobs With Justice; WashPIRG, Whatcom Community Television; the Media and Democracy Coalition; Prometheus Radio Project; Native Public Radio.

Reclaim the Media gratefully acknowledges project support from: Free Press; Glaser Progress Fund; Elaine Nonneman; Media Justice Fund; William Penn Foundation; Proteus Foundation/Media and Democracy Fund; Quixote Foundation; Social Justice Fund Northwest.