Arm Yourself Against the Corporate Media and Learn How To Take It Back

Submitted by jberg on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 12:17pm
Short Description: 

What do media policies debated in Washington have to do with the blandness on my radio and the exploitative reality TV shows I can't seem to get away from? Are media companies simply "giving the American people what we want to hear and see," as they claim? Media literacy can help us better understand what we are consuming when we watch and listen to everything from broadcast news to reality TV to commercial radio. And media activism can help us get a handle on what policies are supporting the five corporations that control nearly everything we read, see and hear, and which solutions - from efforts to break up the media monopolies to the fight for Low Power FM Radio - can help us fight to take back control of our media in our communities.

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
Sakura Saunders
Presenter One Info: 

Sakura Saunders has been in the community radio movement for the past 11 years. She served as a program director of Community station KDVS and helped launch the Low Power radio station KDRT-LP. Sakura currently works with the Prometheus Radio Project, a group that builds and advocates for community radio in the US.

Presenter Two Name: 
Jordan Berg
Presenter Two Info: 

Jordan Berg is outreach coordinator for Free Press. He works mainly on public education to broaden the movement. He also supports the planning and implementation of the National Conference for Media Reform. He has presented on creating identity and media policy as well as hip hop and media policy.

Presenter Three Name: 
Jennifer L. Pozner
Presenter Three Info: 

Jennifer L. Pozner is founder and E.D. of Women In Media & News (WIMN), a media analysis, education and advocacy group. She has appeared on CNN, FOX and MSNBC, and regularly lectures at colleges on gender, race and class issues in media, pop culture and politics. Her first book, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV, is forthcoming from Seal Press.

Presenting organization: 
Free Press, Prometheus Radio Project and Women In Media & News