By contacting your local, regional, state and national
elected and appointed representatives, your voice can have
a profound impact on the future media landscape.
Community media is all about local voices having various
vehicles, through which there can be dialogue.
Points to consider to implement a broad range of media tools
include
• Commercial media alone do not adequately serve local
community needs and interests, and consolidated ownership
exacerbates the problem
• Local public interests are at risk as Congress and
the FCC reshape the regulatory landscape
• The best way to promote locally-oriented programming
is to ensure local and diverse ownership, and to set aside
bandwidth with adequate operating support for non-commercial,
public service media in every local community
• Community access media provide a model for localism
that could be used for broadcast, satellite and IP-enabled
media
• State and local governments in communities across
America must have meaningful and well-defined roles to adequately
protect media consumers and to effectively advocate for local
needs and interests to be met
• Local communities require their own voices: Congress
and the FCC must protect local media and uphold the public
interest
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