C o n t e n t s
News
Issues
Chicago media issues (Special Chicago sections)
- Public stations issues
Channel 11 issues
- CMA analysis: 'Elites, Affluence, & Advertising'
- Complete .pdf. For reading and printing.
- Web page (not ready) ('Chicago Tonight: Elites, Affluence, and Advertising')
- MS Word .doc files (not ready) ('Chicago Tonight: Elites, Affluence, and Advertising')
- 'Underserving the Underserved' (Michael Miner, Chicago Reader)
- 'a scathing report' (Ted Cox, Chicago Daily Hearld)
- Advertisers' kit (.pdf) Completing the commercial takeover of PBS (Taxes, charity funds, and special licenses now subsidize ads to the affluent!)
- miwttwtv.htm
- mitv11.htm
- fccwttw stuff
- Media monopolies (A few world corporations control information)
- Disney Company (Disney, ABC, …)
- Corporate media issues (General issues)
- Trinity Broadcasting (Religious series and no local content)
- Clear Channel Inc. (1200+ radio stations, billboards, …)
- more cc
- Viacom (CBS TV, radio, …)
- General Electric (NBC, …)
The FCC and the media monopolies issues
- Tribune Company (Chicago Tribune, WGN-TV, WGN-AM, WB, …)
- Murdoch incl. News Corp., Fox (Fox TV, newspapers, …)
- ComCast (Cable systems throughout U.S.)
- Working class / labor media [Labor Beat / Labor Express] (Labor Beat)
- Racism and media (Edit URL or use archive link to see a given issue)
- Civil liberties and media (Past issues)
Working class issues and media (Quarterly UPPNet newsletters)
- Books and films
Links
Free Press (National organization analyzes issues)
Reclaim the Media
- Chicago Media Action
- CMA web site / menu (Click CMA logo for current CMA home page)
- Activities / membership form / newsletters (Online form or print it)
- Free CMA newsletters (Edit URL or use archive link to see a given issue)
- Contact CMA (Contact us.)
- CMA forms & literature (Please produce and distribute literature in quantity)
- CMA brochure, activities and membership forms
- CMA brochure 2 (not ready) (Please produce and distribute literature in quantity)
- Online (not ready) (Web)
- (M.S. Word .doc) (not ready) (.doc)
- (PDF format) (not ready)
- CMA history (Selected events)
- Film & forum \'Martin Luther King on labor & war\', 1/18/2004
- Second demonstration vs FCC chairman Michael Powell, 12/18/2003
- Film & forum \'Racism and Media\', 10/16/2003 (Cf. newsletter article)
- Film and forum \'Aftermath: Unanswered Questions of 9/11, 9/11/2003 (Two years)
- Films cosponsored with Chicago Filmmakers, fall 2003 (Chicago Filmmakers)
- Demonstration vs FCC and Tribune Company, 9/4/2003 (Trib)
- Survey on media issues, 8/2003 (6)
- Party \'We The Media\', 7/4/2003 (July Fourth)
- First demonstration vs. FCC chairman Michael Powell, 6/10/2003 (McCormick Place)
- Radio interview, WHPK, M.S., 2003-04-28 (audio, mp3) (.mp3)
- Forum on FCC loosening media monopoly regulations, 4/2/2003 (Greater concentrtion)
- Beginning of CMA, 11/2002 (The need for a more democratic and bold organization)
- Television discussion, CAN-TV (CAN-TV and CMA)
- More CMA history (More history)
- CMA newsletter archive (Since July 2003 beginning)
- CMA home page articles archive (Since February 2003 beginning. Pick a week to view)
- CMA Meetings (Subject to exceptions)
- Membership and public, every other month (to be announced) (In stages of planning)
- Board (Executive Council), 2nd & 4th Tuesdays usually (Board of directors)
- CMA site views (Normal is current information)
Media Channel (Media Channel)
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- Media Access Project (Public interest telecommunications law firm)
- Chicago city information (Selected stations and Chicago city information)
- Labor Beat's labor and media links with comments (Labor media)
- Columnists & ..
- Chicago Media Watch (Media conferences, newsletters)
- Steve Macek site, links with comments (Communications professor & activist)
- Organizations [Free Press list]
- Organizations [Media Channel list]
- Temporary items for editor work (Tests)
U.S. & world news, shows [Democracy Now!] (Headlines, audio, video)
Chicago Independent Media Center video project (Found on the Chicago IMC web site)
Chicago public access cable channels, CAN-TV